Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HE-MIP'TER, or HE-MIP'TER-A
HEM'I-PRIS-MAT-ICHE-MIP'TER-AL
HE-MIP'TER, or HE-MIP'TER-A, n. [Gr. ἡμισυς, half, and πτερον, a wing.]
The hemipters form an order of insects with the upper wings usually half crustaceous and half membranaceous, and incumbent on each other as the Cimex.
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