英语词汇“froghopper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

froghopper n. 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; also called cuckoo-spit insect, spittlebug.

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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)

wood-sear1585

froghopper?1711

froth-insect1774

froth-worm1774

froth-frog-hopper1816

froth-fly1864

spittle bug1882

spit-insect1950

?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. 1/1 Black-headed Froghopper, Cat. 39. This and the Two next are frequent in Gardens towards Autumn.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. 416 Known in England as the frog-hopper (Aphrophora spumaria), when full grown and furnished with wings;..while still in the pupa state it is called ‘cuckoo-spit’.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 346 The splashes of froth called cuckoo-spit..are made by the young of small insects called frog-hoppers.

2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 37/1 The adult bug itself, also called a froghopper, is a remarkably pretty creature, extremely variable in colour and pattern.

单词	froghopper
释义	> as lemmas froghopper froghopper n. 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; also called cuckoo-spit insect, spittlebug. ΘΚΠ 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) wood-sear1585 froghopper?1711 froth-insect1774 froth-worm1774 froth-frog-hopper1816 froth-fly1864 spittle bug1882 spit-insect1950 ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. 1/1 Black-headed Froghopper, Cat. 39. This and the Two next are frequent in Gardens towards Autumn. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. 416 Known in England as the frog-hopper (Aphrophora spumaria), when full grown and furnished with wings;..while still in the pupa state it is called ‘cuckoo-spit’. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 346 The splashes of froth called cuckoo-spit..are made by the young of small insects called frog-hoppers. 2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 37/1 The adult bug itself, also called a froghopper, is a remarkably pretty creature, extremely variable in colour and pattern. extracted from frogn.¹adj. < as lemmas
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