(chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of bugbear

plural of shield bug

plural of stink bug

Alternative spelling of stinkbug

Having bulging or protruding eyes

(US) Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, a subgroup of the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball.

the millennium bug

(US) an insect, of the family Lygaeidae, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias).

(computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

Any of various shield-shaped true bugs of the superfamily Pentatomoidea.