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单词 locustarian
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locustarianadj.n.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Locustariae , -an suffix.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Locustariae, former group name ( P. A. Latreille Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des crustacés et des insectes (1802) III. 277; < Locusta , genus name (in Geoffroy's sense: see note) + -ariae , plural of -aria : see -ary suffix1) + -an suffix.Confusion in scientific usage arose from the application by E. L. Geoffroy (1762) of the genus name Locusta to insects called by Linnaeus Gryllus (Tettigonia). N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (lōukɒstēə·riăn) /ləʊkʌˈstɛərɪən/.
Entomology. Obsolete.
A. adj.
Locust-like; spec. belonging to the (former) group Locustariae, comprising locust-like insects with long antennae (now assigned to the Tettigoniidae, Rhaphidophoridae, and related families). rare.
ΚΠ
1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 830 Truxalis, in Zoology, a genus of Locustarian Orthopterous Insects.
1881 Geol. Mag. 8 297 He accordingly referred the wing to the Orthoptera, and even to the Locustarian genus Gryllacris.
B. n.
A locustarian insect.
ΚΠ
1868 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6 434 The eggs were..laid by a species of Locustarian resembling the Katy-did.
1888 A. S. Packard Cave Fauna N. Amer. ix. 124 In Rhaphidophora the antennæ, palpi, and legs are very long and slender, even compared with out-of-door wingless Locustarians.
1920 A. P. Morse Man. Orthoptera New Eng. 352 The Locustarians are the noisiest of all Orthoptera.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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