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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous hemipteran insects of the suborder Heteroptera, characterized by forewings that have a thick leathery basal section and a membranous apical section, and including the stinkbugs and waterstriders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Heteroptera; a heteropter or true bug.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any of very many
insects of the suborderHeteroptera
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Heteroptera, suborder name : hetero– (from the two sections of their forewings ) + Greek pteron, wing; see -pter.]
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