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plant louse

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plant louse
n.
See aphid.
plant louse
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for an aphid
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals)
jumping plant louse any small active cicada-like insect of the homopterous family Psyllidae (or Chermidae), having hind legs adapted for leaping, and feeding on plant juices
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Noun1.plant louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plantsplant louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
louse
homopteran, homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
aphid - any of various small plant-sucking insects
adelgid - any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
grape louse, grape phylloxera, Phylloxera vitifoleae - destructive to various grape plants
jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid - small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
oak blight - a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods
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Phylloxera, the plant louse that had killed the French vineyards in the fifties and sixties, attacked California vineyards in the eighties.
The University of California and Early Wine Research by Lynette Tyson / Food/cooking/nutrition community
But by the end of the century, most vineyards in Bordeaux, and the rest of Europe has been devastated by a plant louse known as phylloxera.
A ripe age for Chilean wine by Greene, Joshua / Americas (English Edition)
 
 
 
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