| 单词 | orthopterous insect |
| 释义 | orthopterous insect (once / 492472 pages) n WORD FAMILY orthopterous insect: orthopterous insects USAGE EXAMPLESMantis, man′tis, n. a genus of orthopterous insects somewhat like locusts, carrying their large spinous forelegs in the attitude of prayer. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012) But one of the boys had brought three examples of an Orthopterous insect,—a pneumora, which was new to me. Scully, W. C. (William Charles), Lodges in the Wilderness(2011) Instead of attacking crickets it seeks a larger orthopterous insect, the Ephippigera. Houssay, Frédéric, The Industries of Animals(2010) n any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts Syn|Hypo|Hyper orthopteran, orthopteron grasshopper, hopper terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping cricketleaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together acridid, short-horned grasshoppergrasshopper with short antennae long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniidgrasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male mole cricketdigs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots Acheta domestica, European house cricketlives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America Acheta assimilis, field cricketcommon American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings tree cricketpale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation insect small air-breathing arthropod |
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