Crossword-Solution: APHIDS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APHIDS (5)
Early types are not suitable to growing with insufficient irrigation or frequent spraying to fight off aphids.
The best society were by common consent allowed to take the best seats--very hard benches--the less ambitious crowded behind, with minds fully made up not to allow themselves to be carried by enthusiasm beyond the expenditure of two sous when the plate went round; while favoured children, who were not expected to pay anything, because they had nothing, climbed into the mangers, and packed themselves as close together as aphids on a rose-stalk.
But taking a general view of the life-story of aphids for comparison with the life-story of other insects, three points are especially noteworthy.
These, unlike most of their allies, live exposed on the foliage of plants, where they feed by preying on aphids.
Frequently, as in the case of the aphids, many wingless generations intervene between two winged generations.
Quotes with APHIDS (2)
After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head — for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 80 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).