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Definition: Plant Louse |
Plant LouseNoun1. 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 LouseSynonym: louse (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Plant Louse |
| English words defined with "plant louse": alder blight ♦ Bean aphis, Black fly ♦ Flea-louse ♦ Leaf flea ♦ Moth blight ♦ oak blight ♦ Puceron ♦ Root louse ♦ Tree louse ♦ Vine fretter ♦ Wood puceron, Woolly louse. (references) |
Expressions using "plant louse": jumping plant louse ♦ woolly plant louse. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
plant louse | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 pulgão (aphis, blight), afídeo (aphid, aphis). (various references) тля (aphid, aphids, aphis, greenfly, plant-louse). (various references) biljna vaš (blight). (various references) pulgón (fleam, greenfly). (various references) bladlus-, bladlus (aphid, aphis, greenfly, plantlouse). (various references) kırmız böceği (cochineal, cochineal insect, kermes), fidan biti, ağaç biti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aphididae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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