potato bug
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Jerusalem cricket, any of various insects of the genus Stenopelmatus.
noun
A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea.
Example Sentences
- "[…]it appears that by a recent discovery, it has been found that that well-known insect the Potato Bug, yields an oil, which is a sovereign and certain remedy, for all manner of diseases which poor “human flesh is heir to.”"
- "We have another potato bug, the “blister beetle,” also called the “old-fashioned potato bug,” which happened to be especially bad this year in the northwest corner of the state."
- "They predicted that the “new” potato bug would soon endanger potato growers in the Eastern United States and Canada"
- "Universally known among growers as the potato bug, the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) was long considered the most dangerous enemy of Irish potatoes."