单词 | locustarian |
释义 | † locustarianadj.n. 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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