WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woolly plant louse mean? 

• WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE (noun)
  The noun WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE has 1 sense:

1. secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

  Familiarity information: WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOLLY PLANT LOUSE (noun)

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Meaning:

Secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse

Hypernyms ("woolly plant louse" is a kind of...):

aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woolly plant louse"):

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid (primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees)

Prociphilus tessellatus; woolly alder aphid (attacks alders)