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Homopterous   Listen
adjective
Homopterous  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Homopterous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sclater would have much delighted Belt had he come across it. In that region of the world the leaf-cutting ants present a very characteristic appearance as the column proceeds homewards, each ant carrying a piece of leaf held vertically in its jaws; and a homopterous insect has been found that faithfully resembles an ant bearing its burden. The latter is suggested by the thin compressed green body of the insect, and its profile is precisely like that of the jagged edge of the fragment of leaf held over the ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt



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