Crossword-Solution: PHYLLOXERA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phylloxera | n. | A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe. |
| Phylloxera | n. | The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PHYLLOXERA (5)
The phylloxera has ravaged the vineyards in this neighbourhood; and in the early morning, under some chestnuts by the river, I found a party of men working with a cider-press.
Then came the Phylloxera, the vine-stocks perished and the once green table-land is now no more than a desolate stretch where a few tufts of hardy grasses sprout among the pebbles.
Methods of spraying with carbide dust have been found useful in treating mildew in vines; while a process of burying small quantities of carbide at the roots has proved highly efficacious in exterminating phylloxera in the French and Spanish vineyards.
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She, in return, has given us the _Phylloxera_, a few visitations of yellow fever, the _Blatta gigantea_, and, climate allowing, may perhaps throw in the Colorado beetle as a make-weight.