tobacco thrips

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   injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts

   SynonymsFrankliniella fusca

   Broaderthrips

   Part ofFrankliniella

Questions about tobacco thrips

What does tobacco thrips mean?

tobacco thrips means "injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts".

What is another word for tobacco thrips?

Close synonyms include Frankliniella fusca. 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 tobacco thrips a common word?

tobacco 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.