Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spittle_insect

1 sense of spittle insect

Sense 1
spittle insect, spittlebug -- (small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete)
       => homopterous insect, homopteran -- (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)