English-Thai Dictionary
aphis
N แมลง ตระกูล ตัว เพลี้ย ma-lang-tra-kun-tua-pia
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
APHIS
n.In zoology, the puceron, vine fretter, or plant-louse; a genus of insects, belonging to the order of hemipters. The aphis is furnished with an inflected beak, and with feelers longer than the thorax. In the same species, some individuals have four erect wings, and others are entirely without wings. The feet are of the ambulatory kind, and the belly usually ends in two horns, from which is ejected the substance called honey-dew. The species are very numerous.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
APHIS
A "phis, n.; pl. Aphides. Etym: [NL. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Note: Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the Aphidæ excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body.
APHIS LION
APHIS LION A "phis li "on. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa ), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella ).
New American Oxford Dictionary
aphis
a phis |ˈāfis, ˈaf- ˈeɪfɪs | ▶noun ( pl. aphides |ˈāfiˌdēz, ˈafi- | ) an aphid, esp. one of the genus Aphis. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, perhaps a misreading of koris ‘bug ’ (misinterpreting the Greek characters κορ ‘kor ’ as αφ ‘aph ’).
Oxford Dictionary
aphis
aphis |ˈeɪfɪs | ▶noun ( pl. aphides |-diːz | ) an aphid, especially one of the genus Aphis (which includes the common greenfly and blackfly ). ORIGIN late 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, perhaps a misreading of koris ‘bug ’ (interpreting the characters κορ ‘kor ’ as αφ ‘aph ’).
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