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vine-fretter
vine-fretter Now rare or Obs. [vine n.] A grub or insect (in later use, a species of aphis) feeding upon vines.1608 Topsell Serpents 105 After the manner of Vine⁓fretters, which are a kind of Catterpillers, or little hayrie wormes with many feete, that eate Vines when they begin to shoote. 1661 Love... Oxford English Dictionary
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fretter
▪ I. fretter1 (ˈfrɛtə(r)) [f. fret v.1 + -er1.] One who or that which frets. 1. † a. A devourer (obs.). b. That which gnaws, eats away, or corrodes. Obs. exc. in vine-fretter: see quot. 1608.1523 Fitzherb. Husb. § 43 Terre..is a fretter, and no healer, without it be medled with some of these [oil, b... Oxford English Dictionary
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vine
▪ I. vine, n. (vaɪn) Forms: α. 4 vygne (7 vigne), vinyhe, 5 vyny. β. 4–6 vyne (4–5 vyn, 5 viyn), 4– vine (5 vijne); 4, 6 wine, 5–6 wyne. γ. 6 vinde, vynde. [a. OF. vigne and vine (mod.F. vigne, = Pr. and Pg. vinha, Cat. vinya, Sp. viña, It. vigna):—L. vīnea vineyard, vine, etc., f. vīn-um wine.] I. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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volvox
‖ volvox Bot. (ˈvɒlvɒks) [mod.L., f. L. volvĕre to roll.] A genus of fresh-water organisms having a spherical form and provided with cilia which enable them to roll over in the water; an individual of this genus. Volvox as the name of a vine-fretter in Holland Pliny (1601) I. 547 is derived from old... Oxford English Dictionary
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plant-louse
plant-louse (ˈplɑːntlaʊs, -æ-) a. Any small hemipterous insect that infests plants; esp. an aphis.1805 P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. iv, It is called the aphis, puceron, vine-fretter, or plant-louse. 1815 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iii. (1818) I. 67 Hemiptera, consisting of Bugs, Cicadæ,..Plant-lice. 1822–34... Oxford English Dictionary
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devil's gold ring
† devil's gold ring Obs. Popular name of a destructive caterpillar.1552 Huloet, Canker worme which creapeth..on colewortes. Some do call them the deuyls goldrynge, & some the colewort worme. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 547 margin. 1611 Cotgr., Vrbec, the Vine-Fretter, or Devill's Gold-ring; a worm. 1693 E... Oxford English Dictionary
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