ERIOSOMA LANIGERUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eriosoma lanigerum mean? 

• ERIOSOMA LANIGERUM (noun)
  The noun ERIOSOMA LANIGERUM has 1 sense:

1. primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

  Familiarity information: ERIOSOMA LANIGERUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERIOSOMA LANIGERUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid

Hypernyms ("Eriosoma lanigerum" is a kind of...):

woolly aphid; woolly plant louse (secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads)

Holonyms ("Eriosoma lanigerum" is a member of...):

Eriosoma; genus Eriosoma (woolly aphids)