NOUN | animal | homopteran, homopterous insect | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
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Meaning | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings. | |
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Synonym | homopterous insect | |
Member of | Homoptera, suborder Homoptera | plant lice (aphids) |
Narrower | cicada, cicala | stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings |
coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs | |
leafhopper | small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | |
plant hopper, planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | |
plant louse, louse | Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | |
spittle insect, spittlebug | small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | |
whitefly | minute insect that feeds on plant juices | |
Broader | insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
Spanish | homóptero | |
Catalan | homòpter |
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