homopteran

Other forms of homopteran

plural

homopterans·

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 homopteran

What does homopteran mean?

homopteran means "insects having membranous forewings and hind wings".

How many syllables are in homopteran?

homopteran has 4 syllables: ho-mop-te-ran. The stress falls on "mop".

What is another word for homopteran?

Close synonyms include homopterous insect. 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 homopteran a common word?

homopteran 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.