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HEMIPTERON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemipteron mean? 

HEMIPTERON (noun)
  The noun HEMIPTERON has 1 sense:

1. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosisplay

  Familiarity information: HEMIPTERON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEMIPTERON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

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

leaf bug; plant bug (small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices)

lygaeid; lygaeid bug (a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees)

coreid; coreid bug (a true bug)

bed bug; bedbug; chinch; Cimex lectularius (bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood)

backswimmer; Notonecta undulata (predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites)

true bug (any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera)

Holonyms ("hemipteron" 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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