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LEAFHOPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leafhopper mean?
• LEAFHOPPER (noun)
The noun LEAFHOPPER has 1 sense:
1. small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
Familiarity information: LEAFHOPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("leafhopper" is a kind of...):
homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leafhopper"):
jassid (a variety of leafhopper)
Holonyms ("leafhopper" is a member of...):
Cicadellidae; family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers)
family Jassidae; Jassidae (family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications)
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