Word Meanings - PSYLLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidæ.

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• PSYLLA
  Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidæ.
• LEAPFUL
  A basketful.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• LOUSE
  G. laus, OHG. l, Icel. l, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because 1. Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe , now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• LEAPER
  One who, or that which, leaps.
• LEAP YEAR
  . Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year,
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• PLANTAIN
  A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
• LEAPING
  from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider , a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.
• PLANTICLE
  A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
• PLANTAL
  Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
• LEAP
  1. A basket. Wyclif. 2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• LEAPINGLY
  By leaps.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• BARK LOUSE
  An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines. Note: The wingless females assume the shape of scales. The bark louse of vine is Pulvinaria innumerabilis; that of the pear is Lecanium pyri. See Orange scale.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• SEA WOOD LOUSE
  A sea slater.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
• BLOUSE
  A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.