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单词 phylloxera
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phylloxera

/ˌfɪlɒkˈsɪərə / /fɪˈlɒksərə /
noun
A plant louse that is a pest of vines.
  • Phylloxera vitifoliae, family Phylloxeridae, suborder Homoptera.
While growing succeeded there for decades, a plague of the plant louse phylloxera, followed by Prohibition and then the Depression, set the region back for years....
  • They had replanted their land with vines after the phylloxera disaster, until a glut of cheap wine flooded the market, and they could no longer sell their only product.
  • More important was the wine boom in Spain and Italy in the 1880s which took advantage of the phylloxera epidemic in France.

Origin

Mid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek phullon 'leaf' + xēros 'dry'.

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