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Treehopper

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Noun

1. treehopper

small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Treehopper

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noun
any homopterous insect of the family Membracidae, which live among trees and other plants and typically have a large hoodlike thoracic process curving backwards over the body

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Treehopper

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noun
any of various families (esp. Membracidae) of hopping homopteran insects that feed on plant sap and are characterized by the backward prolongation over the abdomen of the prothorax, which is often extended

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Treehopper

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n.
Any of various small, chiefly tropical, plant-feeding insects of the family Membracidae, having an elongated often ornate prothorax.

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