HOMOPTERAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homopteran mean? 

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

1. insects having membranous forewings and hind wings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOPTERAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

homopteran; homopterous insect

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homopteran"):

whitefly (minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects)

coccid insect (scale insects and mealybugs)

louse; plant louse (any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants)

cicada; cicala (stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone)

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

leafhopper (small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants)

plant hopper; planthopper (related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants)

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

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