psylla
noun
psylla is a noun meaning “Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of psylla is psyllas.
What does psylla mean?
noun
- 1
Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of psylla
- psyllas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is psylla?
Psylla appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does psylla come from?
Borrowed from translingual Psylla.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).