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Meanings of thrip in English

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thysanoptera

Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive.

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        Examples for "thrips"
        Examples for "thrips"
        1
        Will the distillate emulsion-nicotine spray control brown scale as well as thrips?
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        2
        The thrips and the disgusting rose-bug were also making havoc here and there.
        Nature's Serial Story
        3
        How can the presence of pear thrips be detected in a prune orchard?
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        4
        The large, showy tobacco-worm and the tiny tobacco-thrips cause serious injury to the leaves.
        Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
        5
        Be on the lookout for thrips, blister mites, red-humped caterpillars, flat-headed borers, pernicious scales.
        Delta girls
        Usage of thrip in English
        1
        The herring-gull was a silver line-aboutas big as a thrip-toseaward.
        The Way of the Wild
        2
        The thrip to shore was not enough, and he's taking a wee turn further.
        Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
        3
        Tell me, did you see no wan there inquirin' afther me good health this last thrip?
        The Winning of Barbara Worth
        4
        Kentucky can go to the devil, half the stations be wiped out, and not a thrip do they care.
        Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
        5
        Being an expert on the pear thrip mattered in Vermont, because pear thrips liked to eat maple tree leaves.
        Before you know kindness
        6
        Do ye dhrink this now," she coaxed in her pretty voice; "dhrink it, asthore,-ye'llnade it f'r th' thrip."
        The Maid of the Whispering Hills
        7
        Only I'm sorry for poor Buster, becase, ye say, he really don't hanker afther goin' on the thrip at all, it sames.
        Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie
        8
        Will the distillate emulsion-nicotine spray control brown scale as well as thrips?
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        9
        The thrips and the disgusting rose-bug were also making havoc here and there.
        Nature's Serial Story
        10
        It was unclear how Thrip gained entry to the latest systems.
        Reuters
        11
        How can the presence of pear thrips be detected in a prune orchard?
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        12
        The large, showy tobacco-worm and the tiny tobacco-thrips cause serious injury to the leaves.
        Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
        13
        Be on the lookout for thrips, blister mites, red-humped caterpillars, flat-headed borers, pernicious scales.
        Delta girls
        14
        It occasionally happens in thrips-tinyblack insects with wings that look like miniature feathers.
        Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
        15
        At the moment caterpillars are the leading local pest, followed by leaf hoppers & thrips.
        The new yorker
        16
        The thrips are very minute, transparent, somewhat louse-like insects.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        Translations for thrip
        Portuguese
        thysanoptera
        Thrip through the time