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Aphis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Apis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Aptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Boat bug
unknown · 78% connection
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Chalcid fly
noun · 78% connection
any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Chalcidfly
noun · 78% connection
any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Chrysalis
noun · 78% connection
The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Coccus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Diptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Euplexoptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up bene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Fossores
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Gordius
noun · 78% connection
A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Grasshopper
noun · 78% connection
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former famil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Hemimetabolic
adjective · 78% connection
Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroach…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Hemiptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
Hymenoptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: order, mandibulate, insects, including, grasshoppers.
