| NOUN | animal | thrip, thrips, thripid | any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any |
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| Meaning | Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive. | |
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| Synonyms | thrips, thripid | |
| Member of | Thripidae, family Thripidae | thrips |
| Narrower | onion thrips, onion louse, Thrips tobaci | injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco |
| tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca | injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts | |
| Broader | thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect | An insect of the order Thysanoptera |
| Spanish | thysanoptera | |
| Catalan | tisanòpter | |
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