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millennium bug

(Encyclopedia)millennium bug: see Year 2000 problem. ...

millennium

(Encyclopedia)millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on ...

Millennium Technology Prize

(Encyclopedia)Millennium Technology Prize, biennial award for innovations in technology, est. 2002 in Finland and bestowed by the Millennium Prize Foundation, an independent fund founded by members of Finnish indus...

Croton bug

(Encyclopedia)Croton bug: see cockroach.

chinch bug

(Encyclopedia)chinch bug, small North American bug, Blissus leucopterus, of the seed bug family. It feeds on small grains, corn, and other grasses, sucking the plant juices and doing much damage to crops, particula...

June bug

(Encyclopedia)June bug, name for June beetle and mayfly. ...

assassin bug

(Encyclopedia)assassin bug, common name for members of the family Reduviidae, one of the largest and most varied groups belonging to the order Hemiptera (suborder Heteroptera). Assassin bugs are generally brownish ...

lightning bug

(Encyclopedia)lightning bug: see firefly.

kissing bug

(Encyclopedia)kissing bug: see assassin bug.

water bug

(Encyclopedia)water bug, name for a large number of water-living bugs, comprising several families of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). All have jointed, sharp, sucking beaks, breathe air, and undergo gradual metamo...