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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 frog
  2. leaf frogs
  3. leaf gap
  4. leaf gaps
  5. leaf green
  6. leaf hopper
  7. leaf hoppers
  8. leaf insect
  9. leaf insects
  10. leaf insertion
  11. leaf insertions

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