thrip

Other forms: thrips

Definitions of thrip
  1. noun
    any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
    synonyms: thripid, thrips
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    types:
    Frankliniella fusca, tobacco thrips
    injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts
    Thrips tobaci, onion louse, onion thrips
    injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco
    type of:
    thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect
    an insect of the order Thysanoptera
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