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THRIPS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thrips mean?
• THRIPS (noun)
The noun THRIPS has 1 sense:
1. any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
Familiarity information: THRIPS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("thrips" is a kind of...):
thysanopter; thysanopteron; thysanopterous insect (an insect of the order Thysanoptera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrips"):
Frankliniella fusca; tobacco thrips (injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts)
onion louse; onion thrips; Thrips tobaci (injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco)
Holonyms ("thrips" is a member of...):
family Thripidae; Thripidae (thrips)
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