Usually means: Tiny insects, damage plants significantly.
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  1. thrips: Merriam-Webster
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  3. thrips: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. thrips: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Thrips (genus), Thrips: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. thrips: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thrips)

noun:  Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.

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