(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:08:44

Het`e*rop"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. other + a wing.] Zool.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

 

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