aphis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   technical and now uncommon: an aphid, especially an aphid of the genus Aphis

   The naturalist identified the aphis feeding beneath the leaf.

Borrowed from New Latin Aphis, the genus name introduced by Linnaeus in 1758. The origin of the coined name is obscure; aphid was later formed from the genus stem Aphid-.

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