A frothy exudation on plants, produced by an insect: = cuckoo-spit, n.2 1; also, the insect itself.
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) (19) wood-sear1585 A frothy exudation on plants, produced by an insect: = cuckoo-spit, n.2 1; also, the insect itself. froghopper?1711 any of various leaping, homopteran plant bugs of the family Cercopidae, of which the adult is somewhat frog-like and the larva produces cuckoo spit… froth-insect1774 froth-worm1774 froth-frog-hopper1816 froth-fly1864 spittle bug1882 = froghopper n. at frog, n.1 adj.compounds 2a; cf. cuckoo-spit, n.2 1. spit-insect1950 †(a) (see quot. 1755); (b) the cuckoo-spit insect, Philænus spumarius; cf. spittle bug n. at spittle, n.2 compounds 1. Subcategories:— aphrophora or amblycephalus interruptus (1) — frothy secretion (10) |
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