Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thrip

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

Syllables: thrip
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera.

Example Sentences

"S.^([Stenchaetothrips]) biformis is also known as rice leaf thrip, paddy thrip, or oriental rice thrip."
"A pair of local pests, the thrip and white fly, made their way into the greenhouse through the air vents and hitchhiked into the conservatory on plants. Without controls in place, each female thrip can reproduce 200 offspring every week."
"Thrip are probably one of the hardest flies to actually see. The fecal deposits they leave on the underside of leaves are usually noticed long before the thrip itself."
"Nevertheless for the sake of discussion here, I posit a situation that engages experts and uses the thrip infestation as a hypothetical case study."

Etymology

Back-formation from thrips

Inflected Forms

thrips (plural)

Derived Forms

thripicide

Synonyms

thrips thripid

Questions

What does thrip mean?: Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera.
Where does thrip come from?: Back-formation from thrips

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