different between mirid vs virid

English

Noun

mirid (plural mirids)

1. (entomology) Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.
   • 2000, A. G. Wheeler, Jr., Chapter 28: Predacious Plant Bugs (Miridae), Carl W. Schaefer, Antonio Ricardo Panizzi (editors), Heteroptera of Economic Importance, page 657,

     Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s.

   • 2006, Marcel Dicke, Willem Takken, Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem, page 29,

     Interestingly, the reproductive consequences of hornworm and mirid attack are very different for the plant. While the plant metabolically responds very similarly to hornworm and mirid attack and gains resistance to hornworms, attack by mirids (in contrast to attack by hornworms) does not reduce the reproductive success of the plant, although the damage from these piercing-sucking insects can be substantial.

   • 2007, H. Brier, 7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts), P. T. Bailey (editor), Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control, page 186,

     Green mirids may be present at any crop stage from seedlings to podding. Mirid populations are typically low during the vegetative phase, but can increase rapidly after budding as a result of in-crop breeding.

Synonyms

• (any member of family Miridae): capsid bug, grass bug, leaf bug, mirid bug, plant bug

References

• Miridae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Miridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Miridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Midir

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin viridis, from vire? (“I am green”). Doublet of vert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???d/

Noun

virid (plural virids)

1. (rare) A green colour.
   • 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173:

     In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’, […]

   • 1994, Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese, volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249:

     (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]

Adjective

virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)

1. Green, verdant.
   • 1858, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Canto IV, page 52,

     The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.

   • 1929, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, 2006, page 135,

     Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.

   • 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

     His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.

Related terms

• viridescence
• viridescent
• viridian
• viridity

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

From virus +? -id or from translingual viridae (“a grouping of viruses”), from virus +? -idae, from Latin virus (“poison”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???d/

Noun

virid (plural virids)

1. (usually in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.