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Webster 1913 Edition
Orthoptera
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Or-thop′te-ra
,p
rop.
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὀρθόσ
straight + [GREEK] feather, wing.] (Zool.)
An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, crickets, katydids, etc. See Illust. under
Insect
.