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GENUS MELANOPLUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
Synonyms:
genus Melanoplus; Melanoplus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Melanoplus" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Melanoplus"):
migratory grasshopper (serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States)
Holonyms ("genus Melanoplus" is a member of...):
Acrididae; family Acrididae; family Locustidae; Locustidae (short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts)