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LEAFHOPPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("leafhopper" is a kind of...):

homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leafhopper"):

jassid (a variety of leafhopper)

Holonyms ("leafhopper" is a member of...):

Cicadellidae; family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers)

family Jassidae; Jassidae (family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications)

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