spittle insect

Questions about spittle insect

What does spittle insect mean?

spittle insect means "small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete".

What is another word for spittle insect?

Close synonyms include spittlebug. 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 spittle insect a common word?

spittle 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.