‖n.; pl. Aphides [ NL. ] (Zool.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the Aphidæ excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A calligrapher [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices cerography. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An epitapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Graphoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lexicographer. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes on the subject of metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes a monograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in organography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spells words correctly; an orthographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Uranographist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A paragrapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a paragraphist. [ R. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Phonographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A photographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. psalmographus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a psalm + &unr_; to write. ] A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ska`fh a trough. ] An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A selenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in siderography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sphenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A topographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One practiced in uranography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A zoographer. [ 1913 Webster ]