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Cuckoo-Spit

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A frothy secretion found upon plants, and produced by the immature nymphal stage of various plant-lice of the familiar Cercopidae and Jassidae, belonging to the homopterous division of the Hemiptera, which in the adult condition are sometimes called frog-hoppers.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cuckoo-Spit'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cuckoo-spit.html. 1910.
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