Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous plant-feeding insects belonging to the former order Homoptera, such as the cicadas, aphids, and scale insects, usually having membranous forewings and including all hemipterans not in the order Heteroptera.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
homopter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An homopter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
insect (atrue bug ) of the order Homoptera
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Homoptera, order name : Greek homo-, homo- + Greek pteron, wing; see –pter.]
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Examples
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
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This IGR acts by inhibiting chitin formation specifically in homopteran pests.
Chapter 7 1994
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