Adelges
noun
Adel·ges
ə-ˈdel-(ˌ)jēz
: a genus of aphids related to phylloxerans and feeding chiefly on spruce and balsam on which they often cause damaging and unsightly galls
adelgid adjective or noun
ə-ˈdel-jəd
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, probably extracted from Phytadelges, proposed division of hemipteran insects, from phyt- phyto- + adelg- (perhaps erroneously for Greek amélgein "to milk, extract" + Greek -ēs, adjective suffix
First Known Use
1837, in the meaning defined above