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HOMOPTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects
Synonyms:
Homoptera; suborder Homoptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Homoptera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Homoptera"):
homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)
Aleyrodidae; family Aleyrodidae (whiteflies)
Coccoidea; superfamily Coccoidea (scale insects and mealybugs)
Aphidoidea; superfamily Aphidoidea (plant lice)
Chermidae; family Chermidae; family Psyllidae; Psyllidae (jumping plant lice)
Cicadidae; family Cicadidae (cicadas)
Cercopidae; family Cercopidae (froghoppers or spittlebugs)
Cicadellidae; family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers)
family Jassidae; Jassidae (family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications)
family Membracidae; Membracidae (plant hoppers: treehoppers)
family Fulgoridae; Fulgoridae (plant hoppers: lantern flies)
Holonyms ("Homoptera" is a member of...):
Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))
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