'Anasa tristis' definitions:
Definition of 'Anasa tristis'
From: WordNet
noun
Large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family [syn: squash bug, Anasa tristis]
Definition of 'Anasa tristis'
From: GCIDE
- Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. [1913 Webster]
- Squash beetle (Zool.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica vittata}, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species.
- Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious to squash vines. [1913 Webster]