aphid
pronunciation
How to pronounce aphid in British English:
UK [ˈeɪfɪd]
How to pronounce aphid in American English:
US [ˈefɪd, ˈæfɪd]
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- Noun:
- any of various small plant-sucking insects
Word Origin
- aphid (n.)
- 1884, anglicized from Modern Latin aphides, plural of aphis, coined by Linnaeus (1758), though where he got it and why he applied it to the plant louse are mysteries. The theory favored by OED as "least improbable" is that it derives from the plural of Greek apheides "unsparing, lavishly bestowed," in reference either to the "prodigious rate of production" of the insects or their voracity. They also are known as ant-cows.
Example
- 1. Several species of ant domesticate a kind of insect called an aphid .
- 2. The causes of serious outbreak of cotton aphid in hetian river valley synthesis management and weather service .
- 3. The prevention and treatment effect of plan-d erived compound insecticide on tobacco aphid and on predators of tobacco aphid was studied by the method of field investigation and laboratory rearing , combining with statistical results .
- 4. Each aphid community is founded by a single , asexually reproductive female at the end of winter .
- 5. The genetic cause and cure suggestion of soybean aphid in 2004 .