Grasshopper - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: grasshopperGrasshopper
Any jumping orthopterous insect of the families Acrididaelig and Locustidaelig having large hind legs adapted for leaping and chewing mouth parts The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive to crops The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust Caloptenus spretus noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi In the Eastern United States the red legged Caloptenus femurrubrum and C atlanis are closely related species but their ravages are less important They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World See Locust...
Locust
Any one of numerous species of long winged migratory orthopterous insects of the family Acrididaelig allied to the grasshoppers esp Edipoda migratoria syn Pachytylus migratoria and Acridium perigrinum of Southern Europe Asia and Africa In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers See Grasshopper...
clitter
to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers...
Grig
A cricket or grasshopper...
Hemimetabolic
Having an incomplete metamorphosis the larvaelig differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches...
VerbarOrthoptera
An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers locusts cockroaches mantids crickets katydids etc See Illust under Insect...
VerbarSaltatoria
A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers locusts and crickets...
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