Definition of Short-horned grasshopper

1. Noun. Grasshopper with short antennae.

Exact synonyms: Acridid
Generic synonyms: Grasshopper, Hopper
Group relationships: Acrididae, Family Acrididae, Family Locustidae, Locustidae
Specialized synonyms: Locust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Short-horned Grasshopper

short-circuiting
short-circuits
short-corner
short-cut
short-cuts
short-dated
short-day plant
short-eared owl
short-eared owls
short-fall
short-haired
short-handed
short-handled
short-headed
short-jointed
short-leaf pine
short-list
short-listed
short-listing
short-lists
short-lived
short-order
short-period
short-range
short-run
short-short stories
short-short story
short-sighted

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, ..."

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