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noun
Any of various small insects of the superfamily Cercopoidea that feed on plant sap and whose larvae produce cuckoo spit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a variety of spittlebug
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spittle insect, spittlebug
History
From frog + hopper.
Across languages
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