Crossword-Solution: THRIPS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thrips | n. | Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium). |
We have 11 clues for the answer “THRIPS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crop-eating insects | 1 answer |
| Rose nuisance | 1 answer |
| small slender-bodied insect with piercing mouthparts that feeds on plant sap | 1 answer |
| they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | 1 answer |
| thysanopter | 1 answer |
| Sap sucking insect | 3 answers |
| Insects that feed on plant sap | 3 answers |
| Destructive insects | 4 answers |
| Plant Pest | 9 answers |
| ANY OF VARIOUS SMALL TO MINUTE SUCKING INSECTS WITH NARROW FEATHERY WINGS IF ANY | 11 answers |
| parasitic plant | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THRIPS (5)
Flies are good fertilizers, and I have seen a microscopic Thrips and a Cecidomya take flight from a flower in the direction of another with pollen adhering to them.
Yet put him among the thrips, and he became a dealer-out of death and slaughter, a destroyer in the class of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.
Thrips feed on the underside of rose leaves, sucking their juice and causing them to turn yellow; and Lord Marshmoreton's views on these things were so rigid that he would have poured whale-oil solution on his grandmother if he had found her on the underside of one of his rose leaves sucking its juice.
Throughout the rose-garden hundreds of spared thrips went on with their morning meal, unwitting of doom averted.
Billie's views on the opposite sex who forgot themselves were as rigid as those of Lord Marshmoreton concerning thrips.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1970–1995).