/bʌˈgz/ - [bugz] - bugs
We found 3 definitions of bugs from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: bugs |
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bug - general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate | ||
insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
bug - a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly | ||
microphone, mike device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | ||
bug - a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | ||
glitch | ||
bug - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | ||
hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron | ||
insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
hemiptera, order hemiptera plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) | ||
leaf bug, plant bug small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices | ||
lygaeid, lygaeid bug a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees | ||
coreid, coreid bug a true bug | ||
bed bug, bedbug, chinch, cimex lectularius bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | ||
backswimmer, notonecta undulata predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | ||
bug - a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | ||
microbe, germ | ||
micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size |