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Meanings of thunderblight in English

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

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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
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        From the AAJ: With ropes frozen useless, the team was caged under their storm fly like prisoners.
        Climbing Magazine
        2
        The storm flies by, bounding on swift pinions; will you not whisper to me in the storm?-Noanswer?
        Northland Heroes