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Definition: Orthoptera |
OrthopteraNoun1. Grasshoppers and locusts; crickets. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Orthoptera" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Walkingsticks, praying mantids, roaches, long-horned grasshoppers(e. g. katydids, meadow grasshoppers, cave and Mormon crickets), short-horned grasshoppers or locusts, and crickets(e. g. mole crickets, field crickets and tree crickets); characterised by strong mandibulate mouthparts and gradual or simple metamorphosis; short-horned grass hoppers or locusts, Mormon cricket and some walkingsticks and crickets(e. g. mole and field crickets)are important plant pests. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An order of insects comprising two suborders: Caelifera and Ensifera. They consist of grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets (Gryllidae). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Orthoptera are an order of insects with incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, cricketss, locusts, and katydids. Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps. Their ears, located in the front legs, are interconnected in such a way that they are able to locate each other by sound.
Orthoptera Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Families Acrididae
Anostostomatidae
Eumastacidae
Gryllacrididae
Gryllidae
Gryllotalpidae
Haglidae
Mogoplistidae
Myrmecophilidae
Rhaphidophoridae
Romaleidae
Stenopelmatidae
Tanaoceridae
Tetrigidae
Tettigoniidae
Tridactylidae
Reference: Nearctica
as of 2002-08-11The Orthoptera are the only insects considered kosher in Judaism. Although the Bible may be read as stating that all Orthoptera are kosher except those, such as the mole cricket, that do not jump, halakhic authorities state that only four species known in Yemen are kosher.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orthoptera."
Synonym: OrthopteraSynonym: order Orthoptera (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Orthoptera |
| English words defined with "Orthoptera": Dictyoptera ♦ Manteodea ♦ order Dictyoptera, Orthopterous ♦ Palpus, Pseudoneuroptera ♦ Saltatoria, suborder Manteodea ♦ Tegmen ♦ Ulonata. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Orthoptera": Densovirinae ♦ Entomopoxvirinae. (references) |
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| "Orthoptera" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Orthoptera" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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Expression using "Orthoptera": order Orthoptera. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
orthoptera | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "Orthoptera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | orthoptera, rechtvleugeligen. (various references) | |
French | orthoptères. (various references) | |
German | Orthopteren, Geradeflügler. (various references) | |
Greek | ορθόπτερα. (various references) | |
Italian | ortotteri. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orthopteraay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ortópteros. (various references) | |
Romanian | ortopter. (various references) | |
Spanish | ortópteros. (various references) | |
Turkish | düzkanatlılar (orthopter, orthopteron). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Orthoptera": orthopteran, orthopterans. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-o-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: operator. | |
-3 letters: phorate, praetor, prorate, rotator, taproot, trooper. | |
-4 letters: harper, hatter, hooper, hooter, hotter, orator, parrot, patter, poorer, porter, potato, pother, potter, prater, pretor, protea, raptor, rather, ratter, report, retort, rhetor, rooter, rotate, rotter, tarter, teapot, tephra, teraph, thorpe, threap, threat, throat, tooter, torero, toroth, torpor, tother. | |
-5 letters: aport, apter, earth, ephor, hater, heart. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-o-p-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: orthopteran, trapshooter. | |
+2 letters: orthopterans, shatterproof, trapshooters. | |
+3 letters: anthropometry. | |
+4 letters: anthropometric, photogrammetry, prothonotaries. | |
+5 letters: anthropocentric, anthropometries, photogrammetric. | |
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