THRIPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrips mean? 

• THRIPS (noun)
  The noun THRIPS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: THRIPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRIPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

thrip; thripid; thrips

Hypernyms ("thrips" is a kind of...):

thysanopter; thysanopteron; thysanopterous insect (an insect of the order Thysanoptera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrips"):

Frankliniella fusca; tobacco thrips (injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts)

onion louse; onion thrips; Thrips tobaci (injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco)

Holonyms ("thrips" is a member of...):

family Thripidae; Thripidae (thrips)