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Hemipterous   Listen
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Hemipterous, Hemipteral  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.






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"Hemipterous" Quotes from Famous Books



... day, Burchell was driven to believe that it was part of the fixed and inexorable scheme of things that these strange superficial resemblances existed. Thus, when he found other examples of Hemipterous mimics, including one (Luteva macrophthalma) with "exactly the manners of a Mantis," he added the sentence, "In the genus Cimex (Linn.) are to be found the outward resemblances of insects of many other genera and orders" (February 15, 1829). Of another Brazilian ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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