| NOUN | animal | hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base |
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| Meaning | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis. | |
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| Synonyms | bug, hemipteran, hemipteron | |
| Member of | Hemiptera, order Hemiptera | plant bugs |
| Narrower | backswimmer, Notonecta undulata | predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites |
| bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius | bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | |
| coreid bug, coreid | A true bug | |
| leaf bug, plant bug | small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices | |
| lygaeid, lygaeid bug | A true bug | |
| true bug | Any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera | |
| Broader | insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
| Spanish | chinche, hemíptero, hemipteron | |
| Catalan | hemípter, hemipteron | |
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