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Definition of Orthoptera
1. Noun. Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Orthopteran, Orthopteron, Orthopterous Insect, Acrididae, Family Acrididae, Family Locustidae, Locustidae, Family Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniidae, Family Stenopelmatidae, Stenopelmatidae, Family Gryllidae, Gryllidae
Definition of Orthoptera
1. n. pl. An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
Definition of Orthoptera
1. Noun. Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order ''Orthoptera'', such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orthoptera
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Medical Definition of Orthoptera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthoptera
Literary usage of Orthoptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"CHAPTER XVI THE orthoptera The orthoptera is a large group of insects containing
over 10000 species. Many of them are very large and striking in appearance ..."
2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1906)
"Joseph Redtenbacher published a paper on the orthoptera of the Island of St.
Vincent.* A little more than a year later Brunner von Wattenwyl reported on the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1908)
"Records of some Paraguayan orthoptera, with the Description of a New Genus and
Species. Ent. News, XVl, pp. 37-42. Caudell, AN On a Collection of ..."
4. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"What the gaudy butterflies are to the eye, the orthoptera are to the ear. Indeed,
grouping the various insects according to the sensations caused by the ..."
5. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"THE collection of orthoptera made by Fedchenko in Turkistan is so far complete
that it enables us to give a pretty clear idea of the character of the ..."
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