FAMILY CERCOPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Cercopidae mean? 

• FAMILY CERCOPIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CERCOPIDAE has 1 sense:

1. froghoppers or spittlebugs

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CERCOPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CERCOPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Froghoppers or spittlebugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cercopidae; family Cercopidae

Hypernyms ("family Cercopidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Cercopidae"):

spittle insect; spittlebug (small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete)

genus Philaenus; Philaenus; Aphrophora; genus Aphrophora (a genus of Cercopidae)

Holonyms ("family Cercopidae" is a member of...):

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