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leaf-hopper

leaf-hopper is the alternative spelling of leafhopper.

Meaning of leafhopper

Noun

leafhopper (plural leafhoppers)

  1. Any insect of the family Cicadellidae.
    • The prominent leaf defoliators, as the rose-chafer and flea-beetle, frequently destroy or vastly injure the crop over large districts, and the little leaf-hopper, though rarely preventing a partial crop, is so uniformly present and widely distributed as to probably levy a heavier tribute on the...1898, C. L. Marlatt, The Principal Insect Enemies of the Grape, page 3
    Synonyms:
    hopper

Forms of leaf-hopper

pluralleaf-hoppers

Questions about leaf-hopper

What is leaf-hopper the alternative spelling of?
Leaf-hopper is the alternative spelling of leafhopper.

Words near leaf-hopper in the dictionary

  1. leaf-fall
  2. leaf-footed
  3. leaf-footed bug
  4. leaf-footed bugs
  5. leaf-green
  6. leaf-hopper
  7. leaf-hoppers
  8. leaf-like
  9. leaf-miner
  10. leaf-miner flies
  11. leaf-miner fly

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