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any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers

↑balsam woolly aphid, ↑Adelges piceae, ↑spruce gall aphid, ↑Adelges abietis, ↑pine leaf aphid, ↑Pineus pinifoliae, ↑woolly adelgid

see adelges

/euh del"jid/, n.

any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid), that feed and form galls on conifers.

[ < NL Adelgidae, equiv. to Adelg(es) a genus name (appar. < Gk ádel(os) unseen, invisible (a- A-⁶ + dêlos visible, clear) + NL -ges < ?: unexplained by the name's originator) + -idae -ID²]