| NOUN | animal | aphid | any of various small plant-sucking insects |
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| Sounds | ae'fahd; ey'fahd | |
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| Rhymes | abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd... | |
| Meaning | Any of various small plant-sucking insects. | |
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| Member of | Aphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea | plant lice |
| Narrower | ant cow | excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants |
| 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 |
| Spanish | afidio, áfido | |
| Catalan | afídids, áfido | |
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