puceron

English

Etymology

From French puce (“a flea”).

Noun

puceron (plural pucerons)

1. (dated) Any plant louse, or aphid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “puceron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pouncer

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French

Etymology

From puce +‎ -eron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.sʁɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

puceron m (plural pucerons)

1. aphid

Further reading

• “puceron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.