Agallia

noun

Agal·​lia

ə-ˈga-lē-ə

: a genus of leafhoppers that includes some species implicated as vectors of a virus disease of South American sugar beets resembling curly top

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin, of unknown origin

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above

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