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Definition of Orthopteran
1. Noun. Any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts.
Generic synonyms: Insect
Group relationships: Order Orthoptera, Orthoptera
Specialized synonyms: Grasshopper, Hopper, Cricket
Definition of Orthopteran
1. n. One of the Orthoptera.
Definition of Orthopteran
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of many insects of the order ''Orthoptera'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orthopteran
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Orthopteran
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthopteran
Literary usage of Orthopteran
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"This group, in fact, forms the prevailing type of orthopteran life throughout
its area, and is almost ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"'13 The Mendelian Ratio in Relation to Certain orthopteran Chromosomes. Journ.
Morph. ... ^05 The Chromosome Complex of orthopteran Spermatocytes. BIOL. ..."
3. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"These two proofs I consider incontrovertible so far as they apply to the orthopteran
families studied. Paulmier judged the planes of the division by the ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1900)
"The orthopteran, which is also more or less a primitive form, ... In this respect
the young orthopteran is as much an embryo as the lepidopterous larva. ..."
5. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"... but show the greatest departure from the primitive orthopteran type. Dermaptera,
represented almost entirely by the family Forficulidae, ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"But what else sang that way but an orthopteran? However, there was no time to
lose, he was almost to the grass. I had nothing to put him in, but could not ..."
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