Leafhopper

Quick meaning: Leafhopper is a noun meaning (zoology) Any insect of the family Cicadellidae.

Meaning

(zoology) Any insect of the family Cicadellidae.

Example Sentences

One of the chief failings of this species is the susceptibility of the leaves to the attack of the leaf-hopper.

1933, Eubanks Carsner, Curly-top resistance in sugar beets and tests of the resistant variety U. S. No. 1, Technical Bulletin 360, US Department of Agriculture, page 3, Attacks on the leaf hoppers with insecticides and mechanical means have, in the past, been conducted mainly in sugar-beet fields.

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 grape in this country than any other insect.

Word Forms

• leafhoppers
• leaf hopper
• leaf-hopper

Synonyms for leafhopper

Depending on context, synonyms include hopper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pest, aphid, leafminer, sawfly, leafminers, weevil.

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