hemipteroid

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noun

A hemipteran or one of the closely related thrips and lice within the Exopterygota

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Meanings

nounhemipteroid (plural hemipteroids)

plural hemipteroids

  1. biologyA 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

Origin

From translingual Hemiptera + -oid.

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Translations

Italian emitteroideo
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APA

hemipteroid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hemipteroid

MLA

“hemipteroid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hemipteroid. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hemipteroid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hemipteroid.

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