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Greenfly

noun
1.
Greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants.





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"Greenfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... the garden just now, with a writing-pad on my knee and my mind ranging the heavens above and the earth beneath in search of a subject, my eye fell on a tragedy in progress at my elbow. A small greenfly had got entangled in a spider's web, and was fluttering its tiny wings violently to effect an escape. The filaments of the web were so delicate as to be hardly visible, but they were not too delicate to bear the spider whom I saw advancing upon his prey ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)


Words linked to "Greenfly" :   pale chrysanthemum aphid, aphid, green peach aphid


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