Leafhopper
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 grape in this country than any other insect."
- 2 small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants wordnet
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More examples"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."