hemipteron

Other forms of hemipteron

plural

hemipterons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemipteron

What does hemipteron mean?

hemipteron means "insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis".

How many syllables are in hemipteron?

hemipteron has 4 syllables: he-mip-te-ron. The stress falls on "mip".

What is another word for hemipteron?

Close synonyms include hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hemipteron a common word?

hemipteron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.