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LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
Synonyms:
long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("long-horned grasshopper" is a kind of...):
grasshopper; hopper (terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long-horned grasshopper"):
katydid (large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings)
Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus (large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("long-horned grasshopper" is a member of...):
family Tettigoniidae; Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers; katydids)