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• APHID (noun)
The noun APHID has 1 sense:

1. any of various small plant-sucking insects

Familiarity information: APHID used as a noun is very rare.

• APHID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of various small plant-sucking insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("aphid" is a kind of...):

louse; plant louse (any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aphid"):

Aphis pomi; apple aphid; green apple aphid (bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves)

Aphis fabae; bean aphid; blackfly (blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets)

greenfly (greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants)

ant cow (excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants)

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse (secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads)

Holonyms ("aphid" is a member of...):

Aphidoidea; superfamily Aphidoidea (plant lice)

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greenfly definition
Pronunciation of woolly aphid
woolly plant louse definition
Definition of Aphidoidea

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