red-legged grasshopper
1red-legged grasshopper — noun Date: 1867 a widely distributed and sometimes highly destructive small North American grasshopper (Melanoplus femur rubrum) with red hind legs called also red legged locust …
2red-legged grasshopper — noun also red legged locust : a very widely distributed and sometimes highly destructive small No. American grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) with red hind legs …
3red-legged locust — noun see red legged grasshopper …
4red-legged locust — noun see red legged grasshopper …
5grasshopper — (Roget s IV) n. Insects commonly called grasshoppers include: katydid, locust, cricket, green grasshopper, short horned grasshopper, long horned grasshopper, red legged grasshopper, Rocky Mountain grasshopper, Mormon cricket, hateful grasshopper; …
6Grasshopper — Grass hop per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families {Acridid[ae]} and {Locustid[ae]}, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very… …
7Grasshopper engine — Grasshopper Grass hop per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families {Acridid[ae]} and {Locustid[ae]}, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some …
8Grasshopper lobster — Grasshopper Grass hop per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families {Acridid[ae]} and {Locustid[ae]}, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some …
9Grasshopper warbler — Grasshopper Grass hop per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families {Acridid[ae]} and {Locustid[ae]}, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some …
10short-horned grasshopper — /shawrt hawrnd / locust (def. 1). [1885 90] * * * any of more than 10,000 species of insects (order Orthoptera) that are characterized by short, heavy antennae, a four valved ovipositor for laying eggs, and three segmented tarsi (distal segments …
