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AMERICAN BLIGHT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
Synonyms:
American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("American blight" is a kind of...):
woolly aphid; woolly plant louse (secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads)
Holonyms ("American blight" is a member of...):
Eriosoma; genus Eriosoma (woolly aphids)