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Meanings of thrips in English

Russian
пузыреногие
Portuguese
tripe
Spanish
tisanóptero
Catalan
tisanòpter
Wikidata

Order of insects.

        Related terms
        пузыреногие
        Portuguese
        thysanoptera
        Catalan
        tisanòpter
        Spanish
        thysanoptera

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

              thysanoptera
              Synonyms
              Examples for "thysanoptera"
              Examples for "thysanoptera"
              1
              Behavioural ecology of Australian gall thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera).
              Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

              A tiny, slender insect with fringed wings of the order Thysanoptera.

                    Usage of thrips in English
                    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
                    6
                    It occasionally happens in thrips-tinyblack insects with wings that look like miniature feathers.
                    Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
                    7
                    At the moment caterpillars are the leading local pest, followed by leaf hoppers & thrips.
                    The new yorker
                    8
                    The thrips are very minute, transparent, somewhat louse-like insects.
                    One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
                    9
                    Hand over, Gary; I have not thrips enough.
                    Melbourne House
                    10
                    Throughout the rose-garden hundreds of spared thrips went on with their morning meal, unwitting of doom averted.
                    A Damsel in Distress
                    11
                    Phwat wid two thrips wid th' rackets an' th' dhrag av th' wolf, 'twill not be bad.
                    The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
                    12
                    Behavioural ecology of Australian gall thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera).
                    Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
                    13
                    Billie's views on the opposite sex who forgot themselves were as rigid as those of Lord Marshmoreton concerning thrips.
                    A Damsel in Distress
                    14
                    Being an expert on the pear thrip mattered in Vermont, because pear thrips liked to eat maple tree leaves.
                    Before you know kindness
                    15
                    Lord Marshmoreton grunted, and continued to peer with a questioning eye in the awesome brew which he had prepared for the thrips.
                    A Damsel in Distress
                    16
                    Paul has also discovered small insects called thrips living on the cresses, and he says he needs to expand his investigation to include thrip-transmitted viruses.
                    Radio NZ