HEMIPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hemiptera mean? 

• HEMIPTERA (noun)
  The noun HEMIPTERA has 1 sense:

1. plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

  Familiarity information: HEMIPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMIPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera

Hypernyms ("Hemiptera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Hemiptera"):

bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)

Capsidae; family Capsidae; family Miridae; Miridae (leaf bugs)

family Tingidae; Tingidae (lace bugs)

family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)

Coreidae; family Coreidae (squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs)

Cimicidae; family Cimicidae (wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects)

family Notonectidae; Notonectidae (aquatic carnivorous insects)

Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)

Homoptera; suborder Homoptera (plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects)

Holonyms ("Hemiptera" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)