noun
primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
• Syn: ↑American blight, ↑Eriosoma lanigerum
• Hypernyms: ↑woolly aphid, ↑woolly plant louse
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eriosoma, ↑genus Eriosoma
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noun : a cosmopolitan dull reddish woolly aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) that is primarily a bark feeder attacking both aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees — called also American blight
Useful english dictionary. 2012.