Associations to the word «Orthoptera»

Wiktionary

ORTHOPTERA, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the subdivision Polyneoptera   — various insects including crickets, grasshoppers, wetas, katydids, etc... It formerly included many other groups such as cockroaches, stick insects, mantids and earwigs, which are now classified in other orders
ORTHOPTERA, noun. Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts

Dictionary definition

ORTHOPTERA, noun. Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets.

Wise words

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