/heuh mop"teuhr euhs, hoh-/ , adj.
belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
[ 1820-30; Homopter ( a ) (neut. pl. of homopterus homópteros ) + -OUS. See HOMO-, -PTEROUS ]