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hemipteran definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis [syn: hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek h?mi- + pteron wing — more at feather Date: circa 1864 any of a large order (Hemiptera) of hemimetabolous insects (as the true bugs) that have hemelytra and mouthparts adapted to piercing and sucking • hemipterous adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hemipteran He*mip"ter*an, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.