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LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-horned grasshopper mean? 

LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER (noun)
  The noun LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER has 1 sense:

1. grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the maleplay

  Familiarity information: LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid

Hypernyms ("long-horned grasshopper" is a kind of...):

grasshopper; hopper (terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long-horned grasshopper"):

katydid (large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings)

Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus (large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States)

Holonyms ("long-horned grasshopper" is a member of...):

family Tettigoniidae; Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers; katydids)


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