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adelgid — noun A common name for insects of the genus Adelges. For this reason, it is important that adelgid free planting stock be used … Wiktionary
adelgid — noun any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers • Hypernyms: ↑plant louse, ↑louse • Hyponyms: ↑balsam woolly aphid, ↑Adelges piceae, ↑spruce gall aphid, ↑Adelges abietis, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
adelgid — adel·gid … English syllables
Gall adelgid — Taxobox name = Cooley Spruce Adelgid image width = 240px image caption = nymph stage of Cooley Spruce adelgid regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera superfamilia = Phylloxeroidea familia = Adelgidae genus =… … Wikipedia
Hemlock woolly adelgid — Taxobox name = Hemlock woolly adelgid image width = 240px image caption = Evidence of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Hemlock regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera superfamilia = Phylloxeroidea familia = Adelgidae… … Wikipedia
Balsam woolly adelgid — Taxobox name = Balsam Woolly Adelgid image width = 250px image caption = Adult Balsam woolly adelgid regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera superfamilia = Phylloxeroidea familia = Adelgidae genus = Adelges… … Wikipedia
balsam woolly adelgid — noun also balsam woolly aphid : a woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae) native to Europe that has been introduced accidentally into the United States where it is a serious and usually lethal pest of fir trees (as the balsam fir and Fraser fir) see… … Useful english dictionary
hemlock woolly adelgid — noun : a woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) of Formosa, Japan, and the northwestern United States that has been introduced into the eastern United States where it is a serious pest of the eastern hemlock see woolly adelgid herein … Useful english dictionary
woolly adelgid — noun Etymology: adelgid ultimately from New Latin Adelges, probably irregular from Greek adēlos unseen Date: 1987 either of two aphids (genus Adelges) with a white woolly coating that have been accidentally introduced into North America: a. one… … New Collegiate Dictionary
woolly adelgid — noun A common name for insects of either species Adelges piceae or Adelges tsugae. In some parts of the Northeast, woolly adelgid<!sic and aphids are serious pests … Wiktionary
