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PLANT LOUSE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does plant louse mean?

• PLANT LOUSE (noun)
The noun PLANT LOUSE has 1 sense:

1. any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

Familiarity information: PLANT LOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

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• PLANT LOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

plant louse; louse

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)

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