WOOLLY APPLE APHID

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

Synonyms:

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse (secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads)

Holonyms ("woolly apple aphid" is a member of...):

Eriosoma; genus Eriosoma (woolly aphids)

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