Definition of "orthopter" []

• Any insect of the order Orthoptera (noun)

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• "-- The term orthopter, or ornithopter, meaning bird wing, is applied to such flying machines as depend on wing motion to support them in the air."
• "If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter."
• "Two of them, the aeroplane, and the orthopter, have prototypes in nature, and are distinguished by their respective similarities to the soaring birds, and those with flapping wings."