orthopterann.adj.
/ɔːˈθɒptərən/, U.S. /ɔrˈθɑpt(ə)r(ə)n/ Entomology.
A. n.
An insect of the order Orthoptera; a cricket, a grasshopper.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > member of
spectre1798
locust1826
orthopteran1842
straight-wing1842
weta1843
orthopteron1880
orthopter1882
taipo1928
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 860/1 Orthopterans, Orthoptera, an order of insects.
1921 L. W. Sharp Introd. Cytol. xi. 245 Such tetrads separate reductionally at the second mitosis (postreduction) rather than at the first (prereduction) in certain orthopterans.
1993 Nature 4 Feb. 401/2 Schistocerca (like all orthopterans) has the ancestral (panoistic) form of oogenesis, with no nurse cells.
B. adj.
= orthopterous adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > belonging to Orthoptera
orthopterous1821
orthopteran1867
1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 500 This paper gave a general account of the Orthopteran (grasshoppers, crickets, and the like), fauna of North America compared with that of Europe.
1900 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 23 393 The Orthopteran genus Trimerotropis.
1956 Nature 10 Mar. 490/1 This is a preliminary report of an investigation in progress dealing with cytogenetics of orthopteran insects of the southern hemisphere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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