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thrips
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun thrips has 1 sense
- thrips(n = noun.animal) thrip, thripid - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive; Array is a kind of thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect
is a member of family thripidae, thripidae
has particulars: frankliniella fusca, tobacco thrips, onion louse, onion thrips, thrips tobaci
CIDE DICTIONARY
thrips, n. [L., a woodworm, Gr. .].
Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium ). [1913 Webster]
" The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious insects."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thrips, n. (pl. same) any insect of the order Thysanoptera, esp. a pest injurious to plants.
Etymology
L f. Gk, = woodworm
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