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Webster 1913 Edition
Aphis
‖
A′phis
,Noun.
pl.
Aphides
. [NL.]
(Zool.)
A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family
Aphidæ
, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. ☞ Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the
Aphidæ
excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body. Webster 1828 Edition
Aphis
A'PHIS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Aphis
Aphis
See also: aphis
Translingual
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Aphis sambuci colony
Proper noun
Aphis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Aphididae – typical aphids.
- A taxonomic subgenus within the family Aphididae – Aphis (Aphis).
Hypernyms
- (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clades; Condylognatha - superorder; Hemiptera - order; Sternorrhyncha - suborder; Aphidoidea - superfamily; Aphididae - family; Aphidinae - subfamily; Aphidini - tribe; Aphidina - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Aphis sambuci - type species; Aphis (Aphis), Aphis (Bursaphis), Aphis (Maculaphis), Aphis (Pseudoprotaphis), Aphis (Zyxaphis) - subgenera