orthoptera

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun grasshoppers and locusts; crickets
noun any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

The Grabbing Orthoptera, Ned says. — The Insect Folk, Morley, Margaret Warner
The accompanying figure (152) of the maxilla of a beetle may serve as an example of the maxilla of the Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Neuroptera. — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
We are singularly rich in orthoptera: I don’t know whether—Ah! you have got hold of that glass jar—you are looking into that instead of my drawers. — Middlemarch, George Eliot

order Orthoptera

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