PLANTHOPPER

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Meaning:

Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants

Synonyms:

plant hopper; planthopper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)

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

treehopper (small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs)

lantern-fly; lantern fly (large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light)