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Definition: Spittlebug |
SpittlebugNoun1. Small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A member of some genera of the family Cercopidae(Hemiptera), whose nymphs feed on plants and live in a white frothy mass(spittle)consisting of air bubbles and partially digested sap expelled from the anus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: SpittlebugSynonym: spittle insect (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: froghopper (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Spittlebug |
| English words defined with "spittlebug": froghopper. (references) |
Expressions using "spittlebug": meadow spittlebug ♦ pine spittlebug ♦ Saratoga spittlebug. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spittlebug | 26 |
pine spittlebug | 3 |
control spittlebug | 2 |
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Words beginning with "spittlebug": spittlebugs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-l-p-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: bulgiest, gulpiest, subtitle. | |
-3 letters: butties, giblets, gluiest, guttles, piglets, putties, spittle, stipule, subtile, ugliest, uptilts. | |
-4 letters: bilges, blites, bluest, bluets, bugles, bulges, bustle, butles, buttes, getups, giblet, glutei, guiles, guilts, guttle, legist, legits, letups, lutist, piglet, pileus, plutei, stipel, sublet, subtle, titles, tubist, tulips, uglies, uptilt. | |
-5 letters: belts, biles, bilge, bites, bitts, blest, blets. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-l-p-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: spittlebugs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 70 69 74 74 6C 65 62 75 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .. - - .-.. . -... ..- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110000 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 01100010 01110101 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S p i t t l e b u g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0070 0069 0074 0074 006C 0065 0062 0075 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53827586867871688773 |
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