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PLANT LOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
Synonyms:
louse; plant louse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plant louse" is a kind of...):
homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant louse"):
aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)
adelgid (any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers)
grape louse; grape phylloxera; Phylloxera vitifoleae (destructive to various grape plants)
jumping plant louse; psylla; psyllid (small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices)
oak blight (a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods)