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MELANOPLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Melanoplus mean? 

MELANOPLUS (noun)
  The noun MELANOPLUS has 1 sense:

1. New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppersplay

  Familiarity information: MELANOPLUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MELANOPLUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Melanoplus; Melanoplus

Hypernyms ("Melanoplus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Melanoplus"):

migratory grasshopper (serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States)

Holonyms ("Melanoplus" is a member of...):

Acrididae; family Acrididae; family Locustidae; Locustidae (short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts)


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