Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having diversiform wings; having the wings composed of several distinct parts; specifically, pertaining to or having the characters of the Heteroptera.
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- adjective zoology Belonging or relating to the
Heteroptera .
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Examples
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There exist also a fair efficacy against heteropterous pests.
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Of course I couldn't, for example, discourse with authority upon the heteropterous mictidæ or tell you in what genus or genera the prothorax and femora are digitate; or whether climatic and polymorphic forms of certain diurnal lepidoptera occur within certain boreal limits.
Iole Arthur C. [Illustrator] Becker 1899
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