单词 | lubber-grasshopper |
释义 | > as lemmaslubber-grasshopper lubber-grasshopper n. a name for two large-bodied clumsy insects of the U.S.; (a) Brachystola magna, of the western plains; (b) Romalea microptera, of the Gulf States. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae > romalea microptera (lumber-grasshopper) lubber-grasshopper1877 1877 Field & Forest 2 160 The ‘Lubber’ grasshopper [is the] large grasshopper Romalia microptera. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) II. 194 The ‘Lubber Grasshopper’, or the Clumsy Locust, of the plains, Brachystola magna,..is..confined to the central portion of North America. 1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xii. 577 Large and small, lubberly grasshoppers often invade cotton from near-by waste lands and defoliate the plants... Lubber grasshoppers, differential grasshoppers. < as lemmas |
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