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ORDER HEMIPTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
Synonyms:
Hemiptera; order Hemiptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Hemiptera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Hemiptera"):
bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)
Capsidae; family Capsidae; family Miridae; Miridae (leaf bugs)
family Tingidae; Tingidae (lace bugs)
family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)
Coreidae; family Coreidae (squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs)
Cimicidae; family Cimicidae (wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects)
family Notonectidae; Notonectidae (aquatic carnivorous insects)
Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)
Homoptera; suborder Homoptera (plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects)
Holonyms ("order Hemiptera" is a member of...):
class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)
