wart-biter
noun
A large mottled green or brown bush cricket that inhabits coarse grassland in Europe.
- Decticus verrucivorous, family Tettigoniidae.
- This is a method to analyze habitat selection of a bush-cricket (the wart-biter, Decticus verrucivorus).
- Because wart-biters bask in the sun, ambient temperature is of less importance than incoming radiation from the sun.
Origin
Mid 19th century: so named from the reputed former use in Sweden of such crickets to bite off warts.
- water engineer
- water engineering
- water equivalent
- waterer
- water extract
- waterfall
- waterfalled
- waterfall tie
- water farm
- water farming
- waterfast
- water feather
- water feature
- water feeder
- water fence
- water fern
- water festival
- water fight
- water figwort
- water filter
- water-finder
- water-finding
- water fir
- water flag
- water flea