| 单词 | orthopteron |
| 释义 | orthopteron (once / 1688473 pages) n WORD FAMILY orthopteron: orthoptera USAGE EXAMPLESMounted specimens of various common species of orthoptera. Lucas, Frederic, A Guide for the Study of Animals(2011) Who will explain to me this predilection for the Orthopteron in a tribe whose chief, the Oil-beetle, accepts nothing but the mess of honey? Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles(2010) Phasmidæ or spectres, another class of orthoptera, present as close a resemblance to small branches or leafless twigs as their congeners do to green leaves. Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, Sketches of the Natural History of...(2010) n any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts Syn|Hypo|Hyper orthopteran, orthopterous insect grasshopper, hopper terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping cricketleaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together acridid, short-horned grasshoppergrasshopper with short antennae long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniidgrasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male mole cricketdigs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots Acheta domestica, European house cricketlives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America Acheta assimilis, field cricketcommon American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings tree cricketpale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation insect small air-breathing arthropod |
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