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Meanings of ladybird (ladybirds) in English
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.
Synonyms
Examples for "ladybug"
Examples for "ladybug"
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He reached over and plucked a ladybug off of my tote bag.
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She looked beautiful to me, wide-eyed and shiny, like a ladybug.
3
For some reason, Madame Lefoux had never specified ladybug protective measures in its anthroscopy.
4
They were obviously confused by the multiple ladybug dirigibles and their multiple Drifter companions.
5
Molly was painting a scarlet rose with a yellow ladybug crawling up its stem.
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My bonnibell, my lady-bird, I have none but good tales to tell thee.
2
Let us come into the town, lady-bird, and choose a doll.
3
The lady-bird must just be passing through.
4
Sorry to find the lady-bird flown.
5
That handsome, perfumed lady-bird that used to come to see you....
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His aerial springs lustily to attention when he sees a lady Beetle.
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Lady beetles are congregating in a corner of a ceiling in this photo courtesy of University of Tennessee released to Reuters on November 6, 2013.
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All afternoon the flight continued, but by nightfall there wasn't a lady-bug in sight.
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Why not even the tiny, turtle-shaped, yellow-back'd, black-spotted lady-bug that has lit on the shirt-sleeve of the arm inditing this?
3
Nearby two gingham sunbonnets bobbed up and down as their owners bent their heads to watch a speckled lady-bug crawl up a twig.
4
When we reached the Soda Springs, we met the most remarkable migration of red lady-bugs that I ever saw.
5
We may discover lady-bugs-small red or yellow and black beetles-amongour vines, and many persons, I fear, will destroy them with the rest.
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Consider a ladybird beetle's brood.
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Aphidophagous predators such as hoverfly and ladybird beetles are effective biological agents to control aphid pests in perennial and annual cultivated species.
Usage of ladybirds in English
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For good measure, E-beta-farnesene also attracts aphid predators such as ladybirds and wasps.
2
No clouds of migrant ladybirds sent bathers shrieking from the beaches.
3
Some years it's plagues of ladybirds, cloudbursts of frogs, hordes of killer bees.
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She is safe with me as one of my own ladybirds of daughters.
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His jazz CDs are transported in a crisp hessian bag patterned with ladybirds.
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CAN you explain how ladybirds get into my bedroom which is three floors up?
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They were crossed by paths well-worn by woodlice and ladybirds.
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Speaking of hops, it is said, "plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops."
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Oh, girls, wouldn't a row of ladybirds for buttons be pretty on my waist?
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All the ladybirds seemed to have taken refuge here.
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In calmer moments I went looking for ladybirds.
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These little song sparrows must surely be ladybirds-theyare talking back in such a saucy twitter.
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My name is Miller, at your service for an adagio-but ,asto ladybirds, I cannot serve you.
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Alas for the released ladybirds of Shidzuoka!
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As in California and South Africa, ladybirds have been reared in large numbers in order to destroy scale.
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THERE is I am told by those who know about these things a lot of ladybirds around this year.
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Ladybirds through the time