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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any root-feeding aphidid, as the corn root-louse, Aphis maidi-radicis, or the lettuce root-louse, Rhizobius lactucæ.
- noun Any one of many soil-inhabiting thysanurous insects, especially those of the family Poduridæ.
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