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WOOLLY APHID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

Synonyms:

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("woolly aphid" is a kind of...):

aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woolly aphid"):

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid (primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees)

Prociphilus tessellatus; woolly alder aphid (attacks alders)

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