aphid
A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily AphidoideaA sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
» The aphids are making the leaves turn yellow.
Тля заставляет листья желтеть.
Попелиці стають причиною того, що листя жовтішає.
Meaning
1 sensesA sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
Blattlaus
тляtlja
тляtlja, попели́цяpopelýcja
- any of various small plant-sucking insects
Examples
8 sentencesThe aphids are making the leaves turn yellow.
Попелиці стають причиною того, що листя жовтішає.
ruТля заставляет листья желтеть.
Tom saw a leaf with many aphids on it.
Том побачив листок, на якому було багато попелиць.
Ladybugs are known to eat aphids.
Ladybugs are natural predators of aphids.
My roses are covered in aphids, to say nothing of the ants!
Translations
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Origin
From New Latin aphis (plural aphides), coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758From New Latin aphis (plural aphides), coined by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. His inspiration for the name remains unclear; OED suggests it might stem from a misreading of Ancient Greek κορις (koris, “bug”) (see diagram), in which case the nominative -ις (-is) suffix was reanalyzed as -ις, -ιδος (-is, -idos); while AHD suggests a connection to Ancient Greek ἀφειδής (apheidḗs, “unsparing, lavishly borrowed”) in reference to the insects' voracity or rapid rate of production, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φείδομαι (pheídomai, “to spare, be thrifty, be merciful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
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