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Definition of Grape louse
1. Noun. Destructive to various grape plants.
Generic synonyms: Louse, Plant Louse
Group relationships: Genus Phylloxera, Phylloxera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grape Louse
Literary usage of Grape louse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"AH the purely American varieties fire remarkable for their power of resisting
the attacks of the phylloxera or grape-louse, which has proved so fatal to the ..."
2. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"Recently special attention has been given this question in the grafting of grapes
because of the struggle against the grape louse. The number of works on ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"was imported into Europe towards the close of the last century, so we find that
our Grape- louse was similarly imported, in all probability within the last ..."
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