homoptera

1. 1.

   plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects

   Synonymssuborder Homoptera

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofHemiptera

Other forms of homoptera

plural

homopteras·

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 homoptera

What does homoptera mean?

homoptera means "plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects".

How many syllables are in homoptera?

homoptera has 4 syllables: ho-mop-te-ra. The stress falls on "mop".

What is another word for homoptera?

Close synonyms include suborder Homoptera. 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 homoptera a common word?

homoptera 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.