woolly adelgid

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   an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree

   Broaderadelgid

Questions about woolly adelgid

What does woolly adelgid mean?

woolly adelgid means "an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree".

Is woolly adelgid a common word?

woolly 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.