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PLANT HOPPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plant hopper mean?
• PLANT HOPPER (noun)
The noun PLANT HOPPER has 1 sense:
1. related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants
Familiarity information: PLANT HOPPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
plant hopper; planthopper
Hypernyms ("plant hopper" is a kind of...):
homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant hopper"):
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)
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