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Thrips   Listen
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Thrips  n.  (Zool.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium). Note: The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious insects.





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"Thrips" Quotes from Famous Books



... planting them borders with s'rubs, as is now a delight to the human eye; and I've walked that garden hundreds o' nights with a lanthorn in search o' slugs, as comes out o' they damp meadows in in counted millions; and I've had my cares in thrips and red spider and green fly, without saying a word about scale and them other blights as never had no name. But never in my life—never in all my born days—never since I was first made a gardener, have I suffered anythink like as I've suffered ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Thrips" :   thysanopterous insect, Thripidae, onion thrips, onion louse, Thrips tobaci, thripid, thysanopter, family Thripidae, genus Thrips, tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca


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