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Homoptera  n. pl.  (Zool.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.





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"Homoptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... dinner in hall they skilfully turned the conversation to unusual topics, hoping to light upon some chink in the redoubtable Brown's intellectual armour. Once they tried him on the rarer British hemipterous homoptera, but soon discovered that he was a very fair entomologist. Next evening the conversation veered to ancient Scandinavian burial rites, but here again he could give them points. The Byzantine coinage of Cyprus was, of course, well known to him while he had himself worked on the ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan


Words linked to "Homoptera" :   order Hemiptera, Chermidae, Aphidoidea, family Cicadellidae, family Jassidae, Fulgoridae, Cercopidae, family Cercopidae, family Chermidae, Membracidae, superfamily Coccoidea, family Fulgoridae, Hemiptera, Psyllidae, family Cicadidae, Coccoidea, Aleyrodidae, Jassidae, superfamily Aphidoidea, family Membracidae, Cicadellidae, homopteran, animal order, homopterous insect, family Aleyrodidae, Cicadidae, suborder Homoptera, family Psyllidae


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