Associations to the word «Thysanoptera»

Wiktionary

THYSANOPTERA, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the superorder Exopterygota   — the thrips—tiny narrow-winged insects that fly using fringes of long setae rather than membranes.

Dictionary definition

THYSANOPTERA, noun. Thrips.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope