Definition of Homopterous insect

1. Noun. Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Homopterous Insect

homopolymers
homopolyriboadenine
homopolysaccharide
homopolysaccharides
homopolyuridine
homoproline
homopropargyl
homopropargylglycine
homopropargylic
homoprotocatechuic acid
homopter
homoptera
homopteran
homopterans
homopterous
homopterous insect (current term)
homoresistant
homorhythm
homorhythmic
homoribopolymer
homos
homosalate
homosalates
homoscedastic
homoscedasticity
homoserine
homoserine deaminase
homoserine dehydratase
homoserine dehydrogenase

Literary usage of Homopterous insect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"OVIPOSITION OF A homopterous insect IN YUCCA. BY C. H TYI. ... On May 15, 1891, a grayish homopterous insect, one of the Fulgoridae, or lantern-flies, ..."

2. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes (1910)
"So that both the form and the colouring of the homopterous insect has been brought to resemble, with singular exactness, 1 For a full account of this ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"mian fossil, was formerly supposed to be a homopterous insect, but it is very anomalous, and its claim to a position in ..."

4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"It resembles much more closely a minute cicada or lu:rvest-fly than any other homopterous insect. It hibernates in the adult stage in crevices in the bark ..."

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