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1. Phylloxera
   ==Biology of Phylloxera== The phylloxera louse has a complex life-cycle of up to eighteen stages that is divisible into four principal forms: sexual form, leaf form, root form, and winged form. The sexual form begins with male and female eggs laid on the underside of young grape leaves. The male an...
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2. Phylloxera
   [n] - type genus of the Phylloxeridae: plant lice
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3. Phylloxera
   A truly nasty aphid that just about wiped out the vineyards in Europe in the second half of the last century. Phylloxera has an insatiable appetite for the roots of grape vines, and once a vineyard is infected there is no cure, except for ripping the vines out and replacing them with plants that hav...
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4. Phylloxera
   A microscopic underground insect that kills grape vines by attacking their roots.
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5. phylloxera
   lesion on a vine root caused by the attack of phylloxera and the reaction of the tissues of the root Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a hemipterous insect of North American origin which attacks the leaves and particularly the roots of vines Cat...
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6. Phylloxera
   Phyl`lox·e'ra noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... leaf + ... dry.] 1. (Zoology) A small hemipterous insect ( Phylloxera vastatrix ) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially i...
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7. Phylloxera
   genus Phylloxera noun type genus of the Phylloxeridae: plant lice
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8. Phylloxera
   • (n.) A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe. • (n.) The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described.
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9. phylloxera
   phylloxera (filok'siru) , small, sap-eating, greenish insect of the genus Phylloxera, closely related to the aphid. Phylloxeras feed on leaves and roots, and many species produce galls on deciduous trees. Their life cycle is complex; one species is known to pass through 21 different stages. Most...
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10. Phylloxera
    Phylloxera is any of a family (Phylloxeridae) of small plant-sucking insects of the order Homoptera that attack the leaves and roots of some plants. The species Phylloxera vitifolia, a native of North America, attacks grapevines, laying its eggs under the bark.
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11. phylloxera
    Plant-eating insect of the family Phylloxeridae, closely related to the aphids. The grape, or vine phylloxera Phylloxera vitifolia, a native of North America, is a notorious pest of grapevines, forming galls on roots and leaves, which damage the plant. European vines are markedly susceptible and many French vineyards suffered...
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12. phylloxera
    A vine louse which devastated the vineyards of Europe in the late 18th Century. The cause of the disease was initially uncertain, but eventually the Phylloxera vastatrix louse was identified on the roots of the affected vines. It was imported from North America, where the indigenous American Vitis l...
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