Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, having usually four narrow wings fringed with hairs, and many of which are major pests of cereals and fruit trees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The typical genus of the family Thripidæ or Thripsidæ. The body is smooth and glabrous; the female has a fourvalved decurved ovipositor. The species are numerous and wide-spread. T. striatas destroys onions in the United States.
- n. [lowercase] Any member of this genus or family, as Phlœothrips phylloxeræ, which is said to feed on the leaf-gall form of vine-pest. See cut in next column.
- n. Among grape-growers, erroneously, any one of the leaf-hoppers of the homopterous family Jassidæ, which feed on the grape. Erythroneura vitis is the common grape-vine thrips, so-called, of the eastern United States. See cut under
Erythroneura .
Wiktionary
- n. Any one of numerous small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
Etymologies
- Latin thrīps, woodworm, from Greek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Treasure Valley's onion fields are furrow-irrigated, and aerial spraying is the only practical way to combat an onion-killing insect called thrips, or thunderbugs.”
“Another one is pollinated by thrips, which is a quite uncommon pollination mutualism”
“The culprit: small bugs called thrips and aphids attracted to strawberries and a variety of vegetables.”
“There are other pests that attack bananas such as thrips, aphids, scale insects, etc.”
“Though they don't need a greenhouse to thrive, the thrips that feed on rhododendrons are called greenhouse thrips "thrips" is both singular and plural.”
“He added that dolichodal, iridomyrmecin, or similar compounds are found also in other insects, such as thrips, stick insects, aphids and rove beetles.”
“He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.”
“In the meantime, Nathan continues to keep track of where the thrips are, who they are attacking, and where they may head next, helping the military and law enforcement contain the infestation the best they can.”
“Dr. James Lanahino and his students discovered the insects were in fact thrips, a common garden pest.”
“These thrips were genetically modified to reproduce faster and are immune to pesticides.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrips’.
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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Crawling out the woodwork
Insects which haven't been listed yet (there don't seem to be any sprawling entomology lists, small wonder), with pretty or punchy names. Suggestions welcome.
magicicada, wooly aphid, shield bug, psyllid, tumbling flower b..., fringed looper, springtail, acteon beetle, lantern bug, moss mantid, green darner, whipscorpion and 37 more...
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Gardening
fun words grown in the garden.
loam, mulching, ephemerals, rhizomes, bolting, thatch, humus:, anaerobic, epiphyte, hybridize, peduncle, obovate and 29 more...
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