Associations to the word «Spittlebug»

Wiktionary

SPITTLEBUG, noun. Any of various small insects of the superfamily Cercopoidea that feed on plant sap and whose larvae produce cuckoo spit.

Dictionary definition

SPITTLEBUG, noun. Small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete.

Wise words

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Mark Twain