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Meanings of plant louse in anglès

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

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        Usage of plant louse in anglès
        1
        Aphis, you know, is the same as aphid, or plant louse.
        The Insect Folk
        2
        The name of the plant louse that infests pear trees is the pear-tree psylla.
        The Insect Folk
        3
        Their natural size is no larger than a plant louse.
        The Insect Folk
        4
        But a bee's tongue, delicate as it is, would crush a fragile plant louse.
        The Hills of Hingham
        5
        How does the squash bug resemble the plant louse?
        Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
        6
        They are supposed to feed also on other vegetable-eating insects as well as the plant louse.
        Our Common Insects / A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fie...
        7
        The aphis, or plant louse, often covers the young shoots of the vine, sucking its juices.
        The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American...
        8
        The plant louse could produce in its twelfth brood 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 offspring.
        Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
        9
        Throughout the winter a single chickadee will destroy great numbers of the eggs of the cankerworm moth and of the plant louse.
        Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
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        They are so small, each one no larger than a plant louse, that you would not think they could do much harm.
        The Insect Folk
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