phylloxeran
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the plant-feeding insects of the family Phylloxeridae, closely related to aphids.
Example Sentences
- "Phylloxerans are similar to aphids but are without cornicles and hold their wings horizontally at rest."
- "The final confirmation of the foregoing conclusions is given by the important discoveries of Morgan (1909), von Baehr (1909) and Stevens (1909b) in the phylloxerans and aphids, where all the fertilized eggs produce females."
- "Phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae) are uncommon pests of shade trees, limited to certain leaf and petiole gall-forming species that attack Carya spp. (pecan). However, other phylloxerans can be seriously damaging to other woody plants, notably the grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch), that produces, alternately, leaf galls and root galls on grape vines."