bug
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1. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | micro-organism, microorganism, |
definition | : | any organism of microscopic size (noun.animal) |
2. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (noun.animal)
3. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis (noun.animal)
hyponym | : | lygaeid, lygaeid bug, |
definition | : | a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | coreid, coreid bug, |
definition | : | a true bug (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bed bug, bedbug, chinch, cimex lectularius, |
definition | : | bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | backswimmer, notonecta undulata, |
definition | : | predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | true bug, |
definition | : | any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | hemiptera, order hemiptera, |
definition | : | plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) (noun.animal) |
4. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly (noun.artifact)
hypernym | : | microphone, mike, |
definition | : | device for converting sound waves into electrical energy (noun.artifact) |
5. a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine (noun.state)
6. annoy persistently (verb.emotion)
7. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information (verb.perception)
8. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use (noun.animal)
derivation | : | germy, |
definition | : | full of germs or pathological microorganisms (adj.all) |
9. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (noun.animal)
derivation | : | buggy, |
definition | : | infested with bugs (adj.all) |
10. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly (noun.artifact)
11. annoy persistently (verb.emotion)
derivation | : | ribbing, tantalization, tease, teasing, |
definition | : | the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances (noun.act) |
12. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information (verb.perception)
derivation | : | bug, |
definition | : | a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly (noun.artifact) |
derivation | : | phone tapper, tapper, wiretapper, |
definition | : | someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire (noun.person) |
13. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use (noun.animal)
derivation | : | germy, |
definition | : | full of germs or pathological microorganisms (adj.all) |
14. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (noun.animal)
derivation | : | buggy, |
definition | : | infested with bugs (adj.all) |
15. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly (noun.artifact)
16. annoy persistently (verb.emotion)
derivation | : | ribbing, tantalization, tease, teasing, |
definition | : | the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances (noun.act) |
17. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information (verb.perception)
derivation | : | bug, |
definition | : | a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly (noun.artifact) |
derivation | : | phone tapper, tapper, wiretapper, |
definition | : | someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire (noun.person) |
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