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Definition of Short-horned grasshopper
1. Noun. Grasshopper with short antennae.
Generic synonyms: Grasshopper, Hopper
Group relationships: Acrididae, Family Acrididae, Family Locustidae, Locustidae
Specialized synonyms: Locust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short-horned Grasshopper
Literary usage of Short-horned grasshopper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"Two species of grasshoppers, one the short- horned grasshopper 42 which was
introduced about 1878, the other the long- horned species,43 the latter species ..."
2. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"Two species of grasshoppers, one the short- horned grasshopper *2 which was
introduced about 1878, the other the long- horned species,43 the latter species ..."
3. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"... short-horned grasshopper, is an important one, not always easy of solution.
As the country is brought into more complete cultivation the ..."
4. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"Thus a young short- horned grasshopper, on hatching, will need to grow to be
about ten times as long before becoming adult; it is without wings, ..."