HEMIP'TER
HEMIP'TERA, noun [Gr. half, and 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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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.