Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
aphidiphagous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Feeding on
aphids .
Etymologies
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aphis + Latin vorare to devour.
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Examples
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Other species of ichneumon insert their eggs into the aphis, and into the larva of the aphidivorous fly: others into the bedeguar of rose trees, and the gall-nuts of oaks; whence those excrescences seem to be produced, as well as the hydatides in the frontal sinus of sheep and calves by the stimulus of the larvæ deposited in them.] [Footnote: _While fierce Libellula_, l.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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