THRIPS
- THRIP, a British coin [n]
- an insect (a small invertebrate segmented animal) [n -ES]
- any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants
- any of an order (Thysanoptera) of small to minute sucking insects many of which feed often destructively on plant juices