- order Orthoptera
- noungrasshoppers and locusts; crickets• Syn: ↑Orthoptera• Hypernyms: ↑animal order• Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda• Member Meronyms:
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order Orthoptera
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Orthoptera — Temporal range: Carboniferous–Recent 359–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Orthoptera — noun grasshoppers and locusts; crickets • Syn: ↑order Orthoptera • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda … Useful english dictionary
orthoptera — noun Any of very many four winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts … Wiktionary
order Dictyoptera — noun in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera • Syn: ↑Dictyoptera • Hypernyms: ↑animal order •… … Useful english dictionary
Orthoptera — Or*thop te*ra, prop. n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. orqo s straight + ? feather, wing.] (Zo[ o]l.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See Illust. under {Insect}. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
order Phasmatodea — noun in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects • Syn: ↑Phasmida, ↑order Phasmida, ↑Phasmatodea • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
order Phasmida — noun in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects • Syn: ↑Phasmida, ↑Phasmatodea, ↑order Phasmatodea • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Orthoptera — A large order of hemimetabolous insects that includes the locusts, grasshoppers, mantids, walking sticks, and related forms. [ortho + G. pteron, a wing] * * * Or·thop·tera (or thopґtər ə) [ortho + Gr. pteron wing] an order of biting… … Medical dictionary
orthoptera — noun plural Etymology: New Latin, order name, from orth + Greek pteron wing more at feather Date: 1828 insects that are orthopterans … New Collegiate Dictionary
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
