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pea bug en · NOUN

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1. (colloquial) Any of several small beetles of the genus Bruchus which destroy pea plants; a pea weevil.
2. (colloquial) A woodlouse (Oniscidea spp.).
   • Morning, with rain in the sky, and the forest subtly brooding, and me feeling no bigger than a pea-bug between the roots of my fir. 1923, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:

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