hemipterous

American  

[hi-mip-ter-uhs] / hɪˈmɪp tər əs /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.

2. belonging or pertaining to the order Hemiptera, in some classifications comprising the heteropterous and homopterous insects.

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hemipterous British  

/ hɪˈmɪptərəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Hemiptera, a large order of insects having sucking or piercing mouthparts specialized as a beak (rostrum). The group is divided into the suborders Homoptera (aphids, cicadas, etc) and Heteroptera (water bugs, bedbugs, etc)

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Etymology

Origin of hemipterous

First recorded in 1810–20; Hemipter(a) + -ous

Example Sentences

"Bedbug" is an intimate name for a small incredibly vicious insect of the hemipterous family Cimicidae.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among other things, she speaks of a large hemipterous fly, which has in consequence of her reports been named Fulgora lanternaria.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

Once they tried him on the rarer British hemipterous homoptera, but soon discovered that he was a very fair entomologist.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

There is a small hemipterous insect which stings the fruit when about two-thirds grown, and deposits its eggs within.

From Cacao Culture in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)

Scalpel′lum, one of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various