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ORDER HEMIPTERA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Hemiptera mean? 

ORDER HEMIPTERA (noun)
  The noun ORDER HEMIPTERA has 1 sense:

1. plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

  Familiarity information: ORDER HEMIPTERA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORDER HEMIPTERA (noun)


Sense 1order Hemiptera [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera

Hypernyms ("order Hemiptera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Hemiptera"):

Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)

family Notonectidae; Notonectidae (aquatic carnivorous insects)

Cimicidae; family Cimicidae (wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects)

Coreidae; family Coreidae (squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs)

family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)

family Tingidae; Tingidae (lace bugs)

Capsidae; family Capsidae; family Miridae; Miridae (leaf bugs)

bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)

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

Holonyms ("order Hemiptera" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)


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