Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Half-winged—that is, having the fore wings partly membranous and partly coriaceous or chitinous; specifically, of or pertaining to or having the characters of the Hemiptera; found in or characterizing the Hemiptera. Also
hemipteral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Hemiptera order;hemipteran
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Examples
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Six districts are overrun by hemipterous stinkbugs — thangnang in Mizo — which are the size of a large kernel of corn.
Waiting for the Plague Shoumatoff, Alex 2007
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Rhynchophora: specifically, the jointed structure covering the lancets in the hemipterous mouth.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Once they tried him on the rarer British hemipterous homoptera, but soon discovered that he was a very fair entomologist.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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BUG, the common name for hemipterous insects of the family _Cimicidae_, of which the best-known example is the house bug or bed bug (_Cimex lectularius_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Coleoptera, the Meloë, and singular Stylops and Xenos; among Neuroptera, the snow insect, Boreus, the Podura (Fig. 109) and Lepisma, and especially the hemipterous lice, will throw a flood of light on these prime subjects in philosophical entomology.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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In its form the louse closely resembles the bed-bug, and the two groups of lice, the Pediculi and Mallophaga, should be considered as families of Hemiptera, though degraded and at the base of the hemipterous series.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The numerous brown spots which you can see on their stalks are hemipterous insects, commonly called cochineal.
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863
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Using the recently sequenced genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), we conducted the first extensive annotation of the immune and stress gene repertoire of a hemipterous insect, which is phylogenetically distantly-related to previously characterized insects models.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Nicole Gerardo 2010
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