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orthopteron

DEFINITIONS OF: orthopteron

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n any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

Synonyms:
orthopteran, orthopterous insect
Types:
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grasshopper, hopper
terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
cricket
leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
acridid, short-horned grasshopper
grasshopper with short antennae
long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
mole cricket
digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots
Acheta domestica, European house cricket
lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
Acheta assimilis, field cricket
common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings
tree cricket
pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation
Type of:
insect
small air-breathing arthropod
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