AMERICAN BLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American blight mean? 

• AMERICAN BLIGHT (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN BLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN BLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN BLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid

Hypernyms ("American blight" is a kind of...):

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse (secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads)

Holonyms ("American blight" is a member of...):

Eriosoma; genus Eriosoma (woolly aphids)