woolly aphids

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• woolly aphid — n. any of various aphids that secrete a hairlike covering of wax …   English World dictionary

• woolly aphid — noun secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads • Syn: ↑woolly plant louse • Hypernyms: ↑aphid • Hyponyms: ↑woolly apple aphid, ↑American blight, ↑Eriosoma lanigerum, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• woolly aphid — 1. any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus… …   Universalium

• woolly adelgid — noun Etymology: adelgid ultimately from New Latin Adelges, probably irregular from Greek adēlos unseen Date: 1987 either of two aphids (genus Adelges) with a white woolly coating that have been accidentally introduced into North America: a. one… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• woolly aphid — noun Date: 1842 any of several aphids (especially genus Eriosoma) covered with a dense coat of white filaments called also woolly aphis …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• woolly adelgid — noun A common name for insects of either species Adelges piceae or Adelges tsugae. In some parts of the Northeast, woolly adelgid<!sic and aphids are serious pests …   Wiktionary

• woolly aphid — wool′ly a′phid n. ent any of various aphids that produce white waxy threads • Etymology: 1835–45 …   From formal English to slang

• Hemlock woolly adelgid — Taxobox name = Hemlock woolly adelgid image width = 240px image caption = Evidence of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Hemlock regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera superfamilia = Phylloxeroidea familia = Adelgidae… …   Wikipedia

• Aphid — This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Aphid (disambiguation). Aphids Temporal range: Permian–Present …   Wikipedia

• homopteran — /heuh mop teuhr euhn, hoh /, adj. 1. homopterous. n. 2. a homopterous insect. [1835 45; see HOMOPTEROUS, AN] * * * ▪ insect order Introduction   any of more than 32,000 species of sucking insects, the members of which exhibit considerable… …   Universalium

• Eriosomatinae — Taxobox name = Woolly aphids image width = 250px image caption = Woolly aphid on new growth of blackberry (red objects are mites) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Homoptera subordo = Sternorrhyncha superfamilia =… …   Wikipedia