Definitions for Aphis

Aphis a·phis

Spelling: [ey-fis, af-is]
IPA: /ˈeɪ fɪs, ˈæf ɪs/

Aphis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Aphis (ahips).

Definitions for Aphis

noun

  1. an aphid, especially of the genus Aphis.

Origin of Aphis

1765-75; New Latin, first recorded in a Gk lexicon of 1523 as áphis, with the Latin gloss cimex bedbug; perhaps originally a misreading of Greek kóris bug

Examples for Aphis

Perhaps the first battle will have to be fought with the aphis, or plant-louse.

Other remedies for aphis are spraying with a hard stream of water.

The grain aphis, in certain years, desolates our wheat fields.

On opening these bladders one finds that they are inhabited by a species of aphis.

I am told that ants do no harm, and, indeed, are useful as against the aphis.

The aphis clings to the ends of young shoots, and sucks out their sap.

aphis vitis is most destructive to vines, as aphis ulmi is to the elm-tree.

The red spider and aphis have no special fondness for the Aster.

They are often accused by the careless observer of the injury, instead of the aphis.

The aphis, or “green fly,” must also be destroyed; tobacco may be used.

Word Value for Aphis
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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