HOMOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Homoptera mean? 

• HOMOPTERA (noun)
  The noun HOMOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Homoptera; suborder Homoptera

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))