Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck juices from plants, often damaging crops.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of leaf-hopper.
Examples
“For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.”
“Ommatius sp., robber fly, by Pete Moulton — with a leafhopper for breakfast, confluence of Rio Verde and Rio Salado north of Mesa, Arizona.”
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb
“Ommatius sp., robber fly, by Pete Moulton — with a leafhopper for breakfast, confluence of Rio Verde and Rio Salado north of Mesa, Arizona.”
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb
“Spread by the tiny leafhopper bug, MSV plagues farmers across the southern part of the continent, where tens of millions rely on corn for more than half their daily calories.”
“Hot dry weather is not favorable for either the phytoplasma or the leafhopper.”
“The leafhopper acquires the phytoplasma while feeding by inserting its stylet a long, slender hollow feeding structure into the phloem of infected plants and withdrawing the phytoplasma with the plant sap.”
“For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.”
“On the left is an orchid and a leafhopper in the Peruvian cloud forest on Road from Cusco toward the Manu Biosphere Reserve.”
“The Plateau is also rich in ant species and supports several endemic leafhopper species.”
“So why is the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter--quite a menacing name for a member of the relatively innocuous leafhopper family--even in the news?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leafhopper’.
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Hoppers
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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