calico bug

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calico bug - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Calicoback \Cal"i*co*back`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) The calico bass.
     (b) An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which
         injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called
         also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.
         [1913 Webster] Calicular