Usually means: Frothy secretion protecting froghopper nymphs.
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  1. cuckoo spit: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuckoo spit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuckoo spit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuckoo spit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuckoo spit: Wordnik
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  7. cuckoo spit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. cuckoo-spit: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cuckoo spit, cuckoo-spit, cuckoo spit: Dictionary.com
  10. cuckoo-spit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. cuckoo spit: FreeDictionary.org
  12. cuckoo spit: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A frothy mass of white liquid that is secreted onto plants by froghopper larvae and serves as a protective covering.

Similar:
cuckoo's egg, cirrhus, viscidium, colletor, epiphragm, extrachorion, flowers of tan, fairy puke, mucigel, clypeole, more...

Opposite:
froghopper spit, spittlebug foam, snake spit

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Similar:
cuckoo's egg, cirrhus, viscidium, colletor, epiphragm, extrachorion, flowers of tan, fairy puke, mucigel, clypeole, more...

Opposite:
froghopper spit, spittlebug foam, snake spit



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