conchuela

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Noun[edit]

conchuela (plural conchuelas)

  1. Chlorochroa ligata, a stinkbug of Central America and North America.
    Synonym: conchuela bug
    • 1910, Austin Winfield Morrill, Plant-bugs Injurious to Cotton Bolls, page 41:
      The insect becomes freed from its old skin usually in the course of twenty or thirty minutes, although in one observation a conchuela in molting its fifth-instar skin required slightly over an hour.

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

conchuela f (plural conchuelas)

  1. ladybug

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