orthopteran

Other forms: orthopterans

Definitions of orthopteran

1. noun

   any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
   synonyms: orthopteron, orthopterous insect

   types:

   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

   a small creature with six legs, three body fragments, two antennae, and usually wings belonging in the Arthropoda phylum