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GREENFLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does greenfly mean?
• GREENFLY (noun)
The noun GREENFLY has 1 sense:
1. greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
Familiarity information: GREENFLY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("greenfly" is a kind of...):
aphid (any of various small plant-sucking insects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greenfly"):
green peach aphid (yellowish green aphid that is especially destructive to peaches)
pale chrysanthemum aphid (important pest of chrysanthemums)
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