orthopterous
belonging or relating to the Orthoptera, an order of insects with leathery forewings, membranous hindwings, and chewing mouthparts, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids.
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Phyllium, fil′i-um, n. a genus of orthopterous insects of family Phasmid—leaf-insects or walking-leaves.
Now, come, let us look at all of our orthopterous friends again, cockroaches first.
The Insect Folk | Margaret Warner MorleyBut I can tell you, we feel a little better acquainted with you orthopterous fellows than we did.
The Insect Folk | Margaret Warner MorleyThe head is in form much like that of certain larvæ of Neuroptera and of Forficula, an orthopterous insect.
Our Common Insects | Alpheus Spring PackardInsects appear well developed, including both orthopterous and neuropterous forms, in the New Brunswick rocks.
British Dictionary definitions for orthopterous
orthopteran
/ (ɔːˈθɒptərəs) /
of, relating to, or belonging to the Orthoptera, a large order of insects, including crickets, locusts, and grasshoppers, having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings, hind legs adapted for leaping, and organs of stridulation
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