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Meanings of plant louse in English

Portuguese
pulgões
Catalan
pugó

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

pulgões
Synonyms
Examples for "louse"
Examples for "louse"
1
Why do you have to come here and louse a decent café?
A Moveable Feast
2
Billy was philosophic-thedeath of one louse did not stop the breed.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
3
I score five where the louse scores one and the cat three.
A week in december
4
He found a feller who didn't know how to distrust a louse.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
5
He is the Chief murderer and wise guy in that louse union.
The new yorker
Usage of plant louse in English
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
10
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
Translations for plant louse
Portuguese
pulgões
Catalan
pugó