homopteran
English Thesaurus
1. insects having membranous forewings and hind wings (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | insect, |
definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | whitefly, |
definition | : | minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | coccid insect, |
definition | : | scale insects and mealybugs (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | louse, plant louse, |
definition | : | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | cicada, cicala, |
definition | : | stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | spittle insect, spittlebug, |
definition | : | small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | leafhopper, |
definition | : | small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | plant hopper, planthopper, |
definition | : | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | homoptera, suborder homoptera, |
definition | : | plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects (noun.animal) |
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