Crossword-Solution: ORTHOPTERA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orthoptera | n. pl. | An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “ORTHOPTERA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Grasshoppers and crickets | 1 answer |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with ORTHOPTERA (5)
The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera the bees, perhaps, being excepted.
The vegetable-feeding Chrysomelidae, so eminently characteristic of the Tropics, are here almost entirely absent; [5] I saw very few flies, butterflies, or bees, and no crickets or Orthoptera.
The case is the same with many of the leaf-like Orthoptera, as, for instance, the praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) which we have already mentioned.
Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former.
There is some evidence that dragon-flies are attracted by bright colours; but what leads me to the above belief is, so many male Orthoptera and Cicadas having musical instruments.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).