Sentence example with the word 'thrips'

thrips

Definition n. any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any

Last update: October 31, 2015


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The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.   [Please select]

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Now if we compare these early stages of mites and myriopods with those of the true six-footed insects, as in the larval Meloë, Cicada, Thrips and Dragon fly, we shall see quite plainly that they all share a common form.   [Please select]

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In the biting lice (Mallophaga) the mouth is mandibulate; in the Thrips it is mandibulate, the jaws being free, and the maxillæ bearing palpi, while the Pediculi are suctorial, and the true bugs are eminently so.   [Please select]

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They were commonly stated to be pollinated by thrips and other insects.   [Please select]

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