WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

Synonyms:

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("woolly plant louse" is a kind of...):

aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woolly plant louse"):

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid (primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees)