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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various small, soft-bodied insects of the family Aphididae that have mouthparts specially adapted for piercing and feed by sucking sap from plants. Also called plant louse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An aphidian; a plant-louse; a member of the genus Aphis or family Aphididœce (which see). In the plural, the plant-lice: a general or indeterminate term for the members of the genus Aphis, of the family Aphididœce, or of the suborder Phytophthiria.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various small plant-sucking insects

Etymologies

  1. Modern Latin aphides, coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. His inspiration for the name remains unclear. OED suggests a connection to Ancient Greek αφειδής (apheidēs, "unsparing, lavishly borrowed") in reference to the insects' voracity or rapid rate of production. (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin Aphis, Aphid-, type genus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Larvae, often called "aphid lions,"are among the most efficient predators of aphids.”

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  • “February 23rd, 2010 WASHINGTON - Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the "mosquito" of the plant world.”

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  • “Washington, Feb 23: Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the”

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  • “Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the "mosquito" of the”

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  • “An adult wasp will strongly prefer to lay her eggs in the same kind of aphid in which she herself grew up.”

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  • “By changing the number of wasp species (one versus three) and whether each wasp species was a specialist (all of the individuals parasitizing just one kind of aphid) or a generalist (different individuals parasitizing different kinds of aphids), Finke and Snyder were able to separately test the effects of species number and resource use.”

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  • “What's special about the wasps, and what made them ideal for this study, is that individuals of one species can be raised to prefer one kind of aphid prey over all others.”

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  • “Pants (UID#2794) on August 31st, 2009 at 12: 28 am facepalm aphid”

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  • “The cucumber plant, alas, ended up disposed of, as the aphid infestation did it in despite the anti-aphid treatment.”

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  • “The picture below captures a ladybug munching on an unfortunate aphid.”

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. aphidian

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. plant louse
  1. louse

hyponyms (10)

Words that are more specific

  1. apple aphid
  2. ant cow
  1. black fly
  2. woolly aphid
  1. greenfly
  2. aphis fabae
  1. green apple aphid
  2. aphis pomi
  1. bean aphid
  2. woolly plant louse

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. black fly
  2. ant cow
  3. greenfly
  4. green apple aphid
  5. aphis fabae
  6. aphis pomi
  7. apple aphid
  1. bean aphid
  2. plant louse
  3. louse
  4. leaf louse
  5. hop fly
  6. tree-louse
  7. vine-fretter
  1. rose-aphis
  2. aphis
  3. geneagenetic
  4. hop-fly
  5. leaf-louse
  6. siphuncle
  7. apple blight
  1. green peach aphid
  2. alder blight
  3. root louse
  4. smother fly
  5. tree louse
  6. wheat louse
  7. ant-cow
  1. aphidian
  2. bark louse
  3. cornicle
  4. pemphigus
  5. phytophthirian
  6. pine-blight
  7. pseudovum
  1. smother-fly
  2. oak-blight
  3. virgin

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Words tagged ‘aphid’

  1. Aphis rostellum
  2. Aphis torquens
  1. Chaetosiphon chaetosiphon
  2. Chaetosiphon chaetosiphon chaetosiphon
  1. Drepanosiphum
  2. Elatobium
  1. Greenidea
  2. Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  1. Megourina
  2. Monelliopsis tuberculata
  1. Myzocallis bellus
  2. Myzus borealis
  1. Myzus japonensis
  2. Tuberoaphis

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