plant louse

1. 1.

   any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

   Synonymslouse

   Broaderhomopterous insect

   Narroweraphidadelgidgrape lousejumping plant louseoak blight

Questions about plant louse

What does plant louse mean?

plant louse means "any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants".

What is another word for plant louse?

Close synonyms include louse. 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 plant louse a common word?

plant louse 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.