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单词 plant louse
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plant lousen.

Brit. /ˈplɑːnt laʊs/, /ˈplant laʊs/, U.S. /ˈplænt ˌlaʊs/
Inflections: Plural plant lice.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plant n.1, louse n.
Etymology: < plant n.1 + louse n. With plant-louse-lion n. compare ant lion n.
A small homopteran insect that infests plants, such as an aphid, a psyllid, or a coccid; esp. an aphid. jumping plant louse n. = psyllid n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > unspecified types > that feeds on plants
plant bug1763
plant louse1763
tree-bug1842
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis
cantharidesa1398
blackfly1652
greenflya1680
green louse1682
green bug1704
collier1742
puceron1744
plant louse1763
aphis1771
leaf louse1774
smother-fly1785
tree-louse1797
ant cow1875
aphid1884
stilt-bug1895
1763 R. Brookes Nat. Hist. Insects 80 The Aphis or Plant Louse, has a bended snout, two horns on the hinder part of the body, four erect wings, and feet proper for walking.
1798 Trans. Linn. Soc. 4 225 Some of the ears were infested with the plant louse (Aphis) called here the Dolphin.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. iii. 67 Hemiptera, consisting of Bugs, Cicadæ,..Plant-lice.
1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects ii. 149 The plant-lice are especial enemies to various sorts of culinary vegetables.
1881 E. A. Ormoerod Man. Injurious Insects iii. 286 Jumping Plant-louse.
1932 E. Step Bees, Wasps, Ants & Allied Insects 79 Like that of most of the other Black Wasps, its special prey is the Plant-louse (Aphis).
1968 R. Lowell Notebk. (1969) 48 The lily pads bright as mica, swarming with plant-lice.
1992 New Scientist 21 Nov. 10/1 Two insect pests—the spiralling whitefly and a plant louse known as leucaena—arrived from Florida.

Compounds

plant-louse-lion n. Obsolete any of various lacewing larvae which feed on aphids.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Planipennia > family Chrysopidae or genus Chyrsopa > member of
goldeneye1681
plant-louse-lion1763
lacewing1831
aphis-lion1870
stink-fly1902
1763 R. Brookes Nat. Hist. Insects 88 It [sc. the Chrysops (green lacewing)] is produced from a worm that feeds upon the plant-lice, upon which account it is named the plant-louse Lion.
1806 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreation iv. 58 An insect called the plant-louse-lion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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