Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a number of radicicolous or root-feeding plant-lice of the family Aphididæ, and usually of the subfamily Pemphiginæ.
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Examples
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The tidy housewife usually places the ant in the same category with cockroaches and bed-bugs and the corn growers attribute much of the injury to young corn to the work of the small cornfield ant which acts as a shepherd of the corn root-louse.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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Fortunately we have many which defy this pestiferous little root-louse, and European vine-growers have been importing them by the million.
The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863
ruzuzu commented on the word root-louse
"It has an above-ground summer form which is furnished with a flocculent excretion of white wax."
--from the Century Dictionry
January 14, 2011