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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 grasshoppers
Familiarity information: MELANOPLUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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