Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous insects of the order Hemiptera, having mouthparts used for piercing and sucking and two pairs of wings, and including the cicadas, the aphids, and the heteropterans, such as the assassin bugs and the water striders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of the Hemiptera: as, “the Hemipteran mouth,”
- noun One of the Hemiptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Hemiptera order;hemipterous - noun Any
insect of the orderHemiptera ; thetrue bugs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
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Examples
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Zhang C, Liu Z, Zhang Y (2009) Characterization of putative soluble and membrane-bound trehalases in a hemipteran insect,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010
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Probably a type of hemipteran, like kissing bugs -- which is what is believed to have killed Charles Darwin.
Edmonton Sun 2010
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For instance, to heal The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs.
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The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs.
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For instance, to heal The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs.
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For instance, to heal The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs.
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It offers protected rooms where hemipteran larvae can also develop quietly.
Seeds Aside 2009
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The typical hemipteran piercing-sucking mouthparts insects, bedbugs have a head, an abdomen, a thorax, and six legs.
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A fellow hemipteran insect, the Fiery Beaked Lantern Bug, like the cicada was resting on another tree trunk.
unknown title 2009
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The bug on the right is probably a true bug (hemipteran), but that's where my knowledge of them ends.
SNAIL'S TALES 2009
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