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hemipteroid

hemipteroid noun: a hemipteran or one of the closely related thrips and lice within the Exopterygota.

Noun

hemipteroid (plural hemipteroids)

  1. A hemipteran or one of the closely related thrips and lice within the Exopterygota
    • However, a few hymenopterans and hemipteroids do possess the ancestral insect mitogenome gene order.2015 July 31, “The Asian Rice Gall Midge ( Orseolia oryzae ) Mitogenome Has Evolved Novel Gene Boundaries and Tandem Repeats That Distinguish Its Biotypes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of hemipteroid

pluralhemipteroids

Origin of hemipteroid

From translingual Hemiptera + -oid.

Questions about hemipteroid

What does hemipteroid mean?
Hemipteroid means a hemipteran or one of the closely related thrips and lice within the Exopterygota.
What part of speech is hemipteroid?
Hemipteroid is a noun.
What is the plural of hemipteroid?
The plural of hemipteroid is hemipteroids.

Words near hemipteroid in the dictionary

  1. hemipterans
  2. hemiptericin
  3. hemiptericins
  4. hemipterist
  5. hemipterists
  6. hemipteroid
  7. hemipteroids
  8. hemipterological
  9. hemipterologist
  10. hemipterologists
  11. hemipterology

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