Akademik

hemipteran

noun

insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• Syn: ↑hemipterous insect, ↑bug, ↑hemipteron

• Hypernyms: ↑insect

• Hyponyms:

↑leaf bug, ↑plant bug, ↑lygaeid, ↑lygaeid bug, ↑coreid bug, ↑coreid, ↑bedbug, ↑bed bug, ↑chinch, ↑Cimex lectularius, ↑backswimmer, ↑Notonecta undulata, ↑true bug

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hemiptera, ↑order Hemiptera

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noun

see hemipteron

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/hi mip"teuhr euhn/, adj.

1. hemipterous.

n.

2. Also, hemipteron /hi mip"teuh ron'/. a true bug; a hemipterous insect.

[1875-80; HEMIPTER(A) + -AN]

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hemipˈteral, hemipˈteran or hemipˈterous adjective

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Main Entry: ↑hemi-

Useful english dictionary. 2012.