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Whitefly

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Noun

1. whitefly

minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Whitefly

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noun plural -flies
any hemipterous insect of the family Aleyrodidae, typically having a body covered with powdery wax. Many are pests of greenhouse crops

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Whitefly

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nounWord forms: plural ˈwhiteˌflies
any of a family (Aleyrodidae) of tiny homopteran insects having scalelike larvae and winged adults covered with a white, powdery wax

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Whitefly

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n.
Any of various small whitish plant-feeding insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having long wings and a white waxy body, and often damaging agricultural crops and ornamental plants.

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