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WOOLLY APHID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
Synonyms:
woolly aphid; woolly plant louse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("woolly aphid" is a kind of...):
aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woolly aphid"):
American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid (primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees)
Prociphilus tessellatus; woolly alder aphid (attacks alders)
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