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Definition of Aphid
1. Noun. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
Group relationships: Aphidoidea, Superfamily Aphidoidea
Specialized synonyms: Aphis Pomi, Apple Aphid, Green Apple Aphid, Aphis Fabae, Bean Aphid, Blackfly, Greenfly, Ant Cow, Woolly Aphid, Woolly Plant Louse
Definition of Aphid
1. n. One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.
Definition of Aphid
1. Noun. Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily ''Aphidoidea''; an aphidian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aphid
1. any of a family of small, soft-bodied insects [n -S]
Medical Definition of Aphid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphid
Literary usage of Aphid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Biology: A Book of Outlines and Practical Studies for the General by James George Needham (1910)
"The habitual guarding of aphid colonies by ants, safeguarding their own supply
of honey dew.—This is the commonest type of association, and the one easiest ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912)
"HENRY LEFFMANN SPECIAL ARTICLES ELM LEAP CCRL AND WOOLLY aphid OF THE APPLE IT
was with considerable astonishment while working over some elm aphids several ..."
3. Studies on the Germ Cell of Aphids by Nettie Maria Stevens (1906)
"II, and the nasturtium aphid with four chromosomes (figs. 39, 47, 66); or again,
the metaphase of the maturation spindle of the parthenogenetic egg of the ..."
4. Forestry in New England: A Handbook of Eastern Forest Management by Ralph Chipman Hawley, Austin Foster Hawes (1912)
"This aphid occurs everywhere throughout the range of the white pine. Appearance.
—A cottony appearance on the twigs, and sometimes over the trunk of the ..."
5. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1906)
"I, and -the star cucumber aphid, with five chromosomes (figs. 3, 23, 36, 105);
or that of the black milkweed aphid, the Oenothera aphid No. ..."
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