English > aphid: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | Any of various small plant-sucking insects. |
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Member of | Aphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea | plant lice |
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Narrower | ant cow | excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants |
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apple aphid, green apple aphid, Aphis pomi | bright green aphid |
blackfly, bean aphid, Aphis fabae | blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets |
greenfly | greenish aphid |
woolly aphid, woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
Broader | plant louse, louse | Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
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Spanish | afidio, áfido |
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Catalan | afídids, áfido |
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