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Definition of Orthopters
1. orthopter [n] - See also: orthopter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthopters
Literary usage of Orthopters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS, OR orthopters. These insects have wings which lie straight
along the top or sides of the back. They do not pass through the marked ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"563 and 566; grasshoppers and cockroaches (orthopters), Fig. 562; spiders and
scorpions (Arachnids), Figs. 561 a and 561 b; ..."
3. Aërial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on by Albert Francis Zahm (1911)
"The orthopters, or wing flapping machines, have been very numerous, but have not
yet approached practical success in use. Though a man-carrying FK, 3G. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"But this would necessitate the abandonment of the idea, that the Cursorial
orthopters are ... and the Ambulatorial orthopters ..."
5. The Mauritius Almanac and Colonial Register by John B. Kyshe, E. C. Ashley, D. P. Garrioch (1870)
"Cuvier's sixth Order of Insects : The orthopters, a terrestrial group though ...
The second kind of Round Island orthopters approach the Sauterelles or ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The second group comprises the bird-like flap- wing machines called "orthopters";
the screw- lift fliers called "helicopters"; the aeroplanes, ..."
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