hemipterous insect
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1. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | insect, |
| definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | leaf bug, plant bug, |
| definition | : | small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lygaeid, lygaeid bug, |
| definition | : | a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | true bug, |
| definition | : | any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | hemiptera, order hemiptera, |
| definition | : | plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) (noun.animal) |
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