Definitions for thrips

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IPA: /θrɪps/

Thrips is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in thrips (hiprst).

Definitions for thrips

noun

  1. any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.

Origin of thrips

1650-60; New Latin Greek thríps (singular) woodworm

Examples for thrips

The thrips and slugs on rose bushes can nearly always be kept in check if one can spray or syringe his plants frequently.

Of these, mealy-bug, red-spider, thrips and mildew are most troublesome.

Brown and blackish spots on Pears are caused by a species of thrips.

No chance of thrips flourishing unsuspected in this house, nor of slugs following their horrid appetite from pot to pot unnoticed.

thrips, another small insect, is sometimes troublesome but not often and is now easily controlled by applications of nicotine.

thrips, order Hemiptera, are insects so minute as scarcely to be perceptible to the naked eye.

thrips are readily controlled by means of nicotine-sulphate.

Grape-growers commonly call these insects "thrips," a name, however, which really belongs to a very different class of insects.

They were commonly stated to be pollinated by thrips and other insects.

Every frozen or fresh package of spinach can contain up to 50 aphids, mites, or thrips before the FDA labels it contaminated.

Word Value for thrips
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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