orthopterous
/awr-thop-ter-uhs/US // ɔrˈθɒp tər əs //UK // (ɔːˈθɒptərəs) //
直升机,直升式,直升机式,直通车
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : belonging or pertaining to the Orthoptera, an order of insects, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids, characterized by leathery forewings, membranous hind wings, and chewing mouthparts.
Examples
Phyllium, fil′i-um, n. a genus of orthopterous insects of family Phasmid—leaf-insects or walking-leaves.
Now, come, let us look at all of our orthopterous friends again, cockroaches first.
But I can tell you, we feel a little better acquainted with you orthopterous fellows than we did.
The head is in form much like that of certain larvæ of Neuroptera and of Forficula, an Orthopterous insect.
Insects appear well developed, including both orthopterous and neuropterous forms, in the New Brunswick rocks.
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