ORTHOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orthoptera mean? 

• ORTHOPTERA (noun)
  The noun ORTHOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. grasshoppers and locusts; crickets

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORTHOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Orthoptera; Orthoptera

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Orthoptera"):

orthopteran; orthopteron; orthopterous insect (any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts)

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

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

family Stenopelmatidae; Stenopelmatidae (long-horned grasshoppers)

family Gryllidae; Gryllidae (crickets)

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

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)