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- noun Plural form of
froghopper .
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Examples
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A: It is the immature stages of spittlebugs (adults are called froghoppers) that produce the foam.
SFGate: Top News Stories Richard Fagerlund 2010
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A: It is the immature stages of spittlebugs (adults are called froghoppers) that produce the foam.
SFGate: Top News Stories Richard Fagerlund 2010
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A: It is the immature stages of spittlebugs (adults are called froghoppers) that produce the foam.
SFGate: Top News Stories Richard Fagerlund 2010
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Spittlebugs -- also known as froghoppers -- use a catapult-like mechanism to achieve their jumping prowess.
YubaNet.com 2008
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Cuckoo-spit—the frothy protection that insect froghoppers secrete around themselves—drips onto me from lather peaks like beaten egg-white that smears the joints of the twigs and branches.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Here, the Bembeces [digger wasps] were sweeping the threshold of their burrows, flinging a curve of dust behind them; the Languedocian Sphex was dragging her Ephippigera [a green grasshopper] by the antennae; a Stizus [a hunting wasp] was storing her preserves of Cicadellae [froghoppers].
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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There are further parallels with the jumping mechanisms of froghoppers and the design of composite bows used in archery.
Signs of the Times 2008
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