🇬🇧🇪🇸 aphid - pulgón : English Lesson

Meaning of "aphid" ("pulgón"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

An aphid is a very small, soft insect that lives on plants and drinks the plant’s sap, which is like the plant’s juice. Aphids can be green, black, or other colors, and they usually sit in groups on leaves and stems. When there are too many aphids, they can make plants weak or sick because they are drinking too much of the plant’s food.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our class planted beans, and the aphid showed up like, “Thanks for the free soda, humans.”

One aphid invited all its cousins, and suddenly my plant turned into an insect apartment building.

The aphid on my rose looked offended when I called it a tiny plant vampire.

I tried to scare the aphid away, but it just kept sipping like a very rude bug at a free drink stand.

Some aphids can make more aphids without even needing a partner, which is like a tiny insect superpower for creating an endless plant-juice-drinking army.

She crouched by the rose. An aphid clung, tiny mouth at the stem, drinking plant juice. Another aphid, then another aphid trailed along the leaf, pale and slow. The child touched one aphid; it fell. She laughed, relieved, as the last aphid dropped and the rose leaf straightened in the sun.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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