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Plant Louse

Definition: Plant Louse

Plant Louse

Noun

1. Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Plant Louse

Synonym: louse (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Plant Louse

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Plant Louse

English words defined with "plant louse": alder blightBean aphis, Black flyFlea-louseLeaf fleaMoth blightoak blightPuceronRoot louseTree louseVine fretterWood puceron, Woolly louse. (references)

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Expressions: Plant Louse

Expressions using "plant louse": jumping plant louse woolly plant louse. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Plant Louse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

plant louse

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Plant Louse

Language Translations for "plant louse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

morr bimësh (mite). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

листна въшка (aphid, aphis). (various references)

   

Czech

  

mšice (aphid, greenfly). (various references)

   

Danish

  

bladlus (aphid, aphis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bladluis (aphid, aphis). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

putkikirvat (aphid, aphis). (various references)

   

French

  

puceron (plant), aphide. (various references)

   

German

  

Blattlaus (aphid, greenfly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μελίγκρα (greenfly), αφίδα (aphid, aphis, green, plant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

levéltetû (aphis, blackfly, green-fly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pidocchio delle piante (aphid, aphis, green, plant), gorgoglione (aphid, aphis, green, plant), afide (aphid). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蟻巻 (aphid, plant lice). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ありまき (aphid, plant lice). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meeyl ny lossreeyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antplay ouselay

   

Portuguese

  

pulgão (aphis, blight), afídeo (aphid, aphis). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тля (aphid, aphids, aphis, greenfly, plant-louse). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

biljna vaš (blight). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pulgón (fleam, greenfly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bladlus-, bladlus (aphid, aphis, greenfly, plantlouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kırmız böceği (cochineal, cochineal insect, kermes), fidan biti, ağaç biti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Plant Louse

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Aphididae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Plant Louse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-n-o-p-s-t-u"

-2 letters: apolunes, outleaps, outplans, outspell, petalous, pleuston, polentas, pollutes.

-3 letters: apolune, apostle, eluants, espanol, etalons, leptons, opulent, outleap, outplan, outsell, outspan, pallets, peanuts, pelotas, penults, planets, platens, plutons, polenta, pollens, pollute, pullets, pulsant, pulsate, sellout, soutane, stollen, teopans, tolanes, tupelos.

-4 letters: allots, anoles, aslope, atolls, atones, eluant, ensoul, etalon, lanose, lapels, latens, lentos, lepton.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-n-o-p-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: cupellations.

 

+3 letters: tablespoonful.

 

+4 letters: tablespoonfuls, tablespoonsful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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