Definition of "orthoptera" []

• Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts (noun)

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• "For all the confusion they might inspire, I love the stridulations of orthoptera (their technical name that means "rigid winged")."
• "Like several other orthoptera, including the wonderfully named long-winged conehead, the bush cricket is on a northward march, possibly as a consequence of climate change."
• "I can—I will—no longer tolerate your repeated denomination of me as a member of that vexatious order of orthoptera known scientifically as Gryllus domesticus."