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Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
* 1919', Frank Hurlbut Chittenden, ''Control of the Onion '''Thrips ,
* 2002', '''''Thrips'' , article in ''International Wildlife Encyclopedia Volume 19, Picture caption,
* 2004 , Steve H. Dreistadt, Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide , Picture caption,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a proper noun thrips
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.thrips
English
(wikipedia thrips)Alternative forms
* thrip (alternative singular form)Noun
(thrips)page 9,
- The turnrows and margins of the fields should be cultivated often enough to prevent the growth of weeds, many forms of which harbor the onion thrips .
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- The thousands of thrips species include among their number the smallest of all winged insects.
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- Bleaching and stippling on viburnum foliage infested with greenhouse thrips'. Because this sluggish ' thrips feeds openly on the underside of leaves, it is controlled by thorough coverage with insecticidal soap or oil.
Derived terms
* (grain thrips) () * (onion thrips) () * (western flower thrips) ()External links
* http://www.gladescropcare.com/wythp.htmlnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.