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vedalia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vedalia
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Novius cardinalis (syns. Rodolia cardinalis, Vedalia cardinalis), a ladybird beetle endemic to Australia, but introduced to California and New Zealand to control Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale), a pest of citrus.

Etymology

From Vedalia, the genus in which this species was once classified.

Inflected Forms

vedalias (plural)

Synonyms

vedalia beetle cardinal ladybird rodolia cardinalis

Questions

What does vedalia mean?
Novius cardinalis (syns. Rodolia cardinalis, Vedalia cardinalis), a ladybird beetle endemic to Australia, but introduced to California and New Zealand to control Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale), a pest of citrus.
Where does vedalia come from?
From Vedalia, the genus in which this species was once classified.

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