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    PLANT HOPPER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plantsplay

    Synonyms:

    plant hopper; planthopper

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("plant hopper" is a kind of...):

    homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant hopper"):

    treehopper (small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs)

    lantern-fly; lantern fly (large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light)

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