ladybug
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la·dy·bug
/ ˈlādēˌbəg/
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a small beetle (family Coccinellidae), typically red or yellow with black spots. Both the adults and larvae are important predators of aphids.
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Dear Highlights.(making friends, injections, sibling relations and Timbertoes)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 3/1/2009; 384 words
; ...the boss. Why do the Timbertoes have black spots on their stomachs? Mona (by e-mail...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Timbertoes have had black spots on their stomachs ever since they were...in 1977. We can't ask him about the black spots, but we have assumed that he thought...
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OTC manufacturer changes product specs following validation.(Human drugs)
Newspaper article from: Validation Times; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Severe Congestion Caplets indicated that black spots were discovered on caplets during production...press was stopped due to the presence of black spots found on the surface of the caplets...examined. Barbee also said caplets with black spots were broken open and the interior were...
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OTC manufacturer cited for OOS results, quality failures.(Human Drugs)
Newspaper article from: Inspection Monitor; 4/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...Severe Congestion Caplets indicated that black spots were discovered on caplets during production...examined. Barbee also said caplets with black spots were broken open and the interior were...documented. Barbee also pointed out that no black spots were found in the interior of the ...
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Saving Felix.(The Bravest Thing)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 2/1/2005; ; 63 words
; ...ever did was crawl under the house (full of worms) to save a small kitten we later named Felix. He was white with many large black spots. When I was under the house, my heart was pounding so hard that it pounds while I think about it. It pounds as I write. I...
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NORWAY: 21 ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS SHELVED.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 10/16/2002; 41 words
; The Government's proposals to slash road-building investments mean that 21 projects which should have been started this year and next will have to be shelved indefinitely. Among those postponed are improvements to several accident black spots. (Source: Odin.dep.no)
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My Dog Is a Polar Bear!(Your Own Pages)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 4/1/2009; ; 41 words
; My Dog is a Polar Bear! Chloe is a polar bear, a little flea bite. She's small with two black spots, and the rest is white. She's sweet and nice and fills me with joy, even though sometimes she thinks my little sister is a chew toy. Evan Bergman, Age 9 Maryland
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High-tech plant: potato processing par excellence. (Vriezo)
Magazine article from: Quick Frozen Foods International; 4/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...blasts of air. The raw material is sidetracked where specks or black spots are removed by an automatically-controlled cutting machine...peeling and sorting to cutting and removal of undesirable black spots, to blanching, drying, pre-frying, freezing, packaging, storing...
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WORK STARTS ON TRAFFIC BLACK SPOTS.
Newspaper article from: Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England); 2/1/2007; 307 words
; ...country's most advanced traffic light systems will be used to try and cut congestion during an overhaul of Melton's traffic black spots. Work began this week on the [pounds sterling]1m changes to Norman Way's key junctions in an effort to relieve queues while...
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Black spots to be salted.
Newspaper article from: Lurgan Mail (Portadown, Northern Ireland); 11/30/2007; 140 words
; NOTORIOUS accidents black spots have been scheduled for salting this winter. There has been a history of accidents on the Derrymore Road and Brankinstown Road...
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Obligations. (poem)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 4/8/1994; ; 86 words
; Virginia V. Htavsa Obligations There is a house I must often pass, so ugly--yellow with black spots and stone lions and retread planters--I have trained my eye to look across the road or up or down or anywhere but there or it will...
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ladybug
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
ladybug • bug , chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug •bedbug • ladybug • doodlebug •humbug • firebug • thunderbug • jitterbug , litterbug •shutterbug...
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ladybird
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
ladybird ( ladybug ) Any of a large number of small, brightly coloured beetles; the most common are red with conspicuous black spots and a black and...
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ladybird beetle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
or ladybug, member of a cosmopolitan beetle family with over 4,000 species, including 350 species in the United States. Ladybird beetles are...
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bedbug
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
...drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug •bedbug • ladybug • doodlebug •humbug • firebug • thunderbug • jitterbug , litterbug •shutterbug...
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glug
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
...drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug •bedbug • ladybug • doodlebug •humbug • firebug • thunderbug • jitterbug , litterbug •shutterbug...
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