onion thrips

1. 1.

   injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco

   Synonymsonion louseThrips tobaci

   Broaderthrips

   Part ofgenus Thrips

Questions about onion thrips

What does onion thrips mean?

onion thrips means "injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco".

What is another word for onion thrips?

Close synonyms include onion louse, Thrips tobaci. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is onion thrips a common word?

onion thrips 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.