aphid
English Thesaurus
1. any of various small plant-sucking insects (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | louse, plant louse, |
| definition | : | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aphis pomi, apple aphid, green apple aphid, |
| definition | : | bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aphis fabae, bean aphid, blackfly, |
| definition | : | blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | greenfly, |
| definition | : | greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ant cow, |
| definition | : | excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | woolly aphid, woolly plant louse, |
| definition | : | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | aphidoidea, superfamily aphidoidea, |
| definition | : | plant lice (noun.animal) |
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