Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the characters of the Hemiptera or Hemipteroidea.
  • noun One of the Hemipteroidea.

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Examples

  • In the Permian period, the latest of the divisions of the Palaeozoic, lived Eugereon, an insect with hemipteroid jaws and orthopteroid wings.

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

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