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Grasshoppers and crickets
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orthoptera
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Orthoptera \Or*thop"te*ra\, prop. n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'orqo`s straight + ? feather, wing.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See Illust. under Insect . Note: ...
WordNet
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n. any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts [syn: orthopterous insect , orthopteran ] [also: orthoptera (pl)]
Wikipedia
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The Orthoptera order of insects includes the grasshoppers , crickets , cave crickets , Jerusalem crickets , katydids , weta , lubber , Acrida , and locusts . More than 27,000 species are distributed worldwide. Many insects in this order have paurometabolous ...
Wiktionary
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n. Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order ''Orthoptera'', such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts
Usage examples of orthoptera.
With his tin box under his arm, and his butterfly net in his hand, and his huge magnifying-glass suspended from his neck, he would be sometimes far ahead, sometimes a long way behind, and at the risk of being attacked by some venomous snake, would make frantic dashes into the tall grass whenever he espied some attractive orthoptera or other insect which he thought might be honoured by a place in his collection.
In the course of an hour or two he had adorned his hat with a variety of orthoptera, coleoptera, and all the other opteras known to the insect-catching profession.
The water boatman is much more compact in form than the Orthoptera, or any of the other insects we have studied.
With this difference: that the invasions of those Orthoptera never brought me a son whereas I earned my living by carrying on a dialogue with people I scorned.