hemipterous insect

Questions about hemipterous insect

What does hemipterous insect mean?

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

What is another word for hemipterous insect?

Close synonyms include bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. 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 hemipterous insect a common word?

hemipterous insect 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.