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colorado beetle

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  1. 1. A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide Source: wordnet
  3. 3. A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. Source: webster
  4. 4. A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with tenlongitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards fromits original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to thepotato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potatobeetle. Source: adambom

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