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WOOLLY APHID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does woolly aphid mean?
• WOOLLY APHID (noun)
The noun WOOLLY APHID has 1 sense:
1. secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
Familiarity information: WOOLLY APHID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
woolly aphid; woolly plant louse
Hypernyms ("woolly aphid" is a kind of...):
aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woolly aphid"):
American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid (primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees)
Prociphilus tessellatus; woolly alder aphid (attacks alders)
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