adelgid

1. 1.

   any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers

   Broaderplant louse

   Narrowerbalsam woolly aphidspruce gall aphidpine leaf aphidwoolly adelgid

   Part ofAdelgidae

Other forms of adelgid

plural

adelgids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adelgid

What does adelgid mean?

adelgid means "any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers".

How many syllables are in adelgid?

adelgid has 3 syllables: a-del-gid. The stress falls on "a".

Is adelgid a common word?

adelgid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.