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plant lousenounA small bug that infests plants and feeds on the sap or tender shoots, especially an aphid.- Several families in the series Sternorrhyncha, suborder Homoptera. See also jumping plant louse.
But then the plant louse called phylloxera hit most of Europe and ruined the vineyard, which lay fallow for decades....- 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.
- Aphids, or plant lice, are small green, pink, or mealy-white insects that attack many plants.
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