woolly apple aphid

1. 1.

   primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees

   SynonymsAmerican blightEriosoma lanigerum

   Broaderwoolly aphid

   Part ofEriosoma

Questions about woolly apple aphid

What does woolly apple aphid mean?

woolly apple aphid means "primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees".

What is another word for woolly apple aphid?

Close synonyms include American blight, Eriosoma lanigerum. 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 woolly apple aphid a common word?

woolly apple aphid 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.