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Definition: Acrididae

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts.[Wordnet].

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Date "Acrididae" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Common Expressions: Acrididae

Expressions Definition
Family Acrididae Short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Extended Definition: Acrididae

Acrididae

Acrididae
Woodland grasshopper, Omocestus rufipes
Woodland grasshopper, Omocestus rufipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Acrididae
MacLeay, 1819
Genera

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The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as the family Oedipodidae, in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by antennae relatively short and stout, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

Gallery

Desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, laying eggs

Bark mimicking grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola, so named because of its ability to mimic the bark of the Mexican Chihuahua

Egyptian grasshopper, Anacridium aegyptum


Classification

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Acrididae". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: Acrididae

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Synonyms: Acrididae
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Other

 Locustidae.

Expression

 family Acrididae, family Locustidae, true locusts.
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Computed Synonyms: Acrididae

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 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0090   Acrididae     Locust     grasshopper, hopper, katydid, cricket, lash cleat   
 2   1.0085   Acrididae     migratory locust     locust, African migratory locust, desert locust, central American locust   
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Translations: Acrididae

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Dutch treksprinkhaan (Acrididae, Locust, migratory locust). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, Acrididae. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek ακριδίδαι (Acrididae). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Acrididae. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) akridhidhai (Acrididae). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Acrididae. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Acrididae

Language Translations for “Acrididae” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin Acrididaeway (Acrididae). Additional references: Pig Latin, Acrididae. (volunteer)
Terran B treksinkaan (Acrididae). Additional references: Terran B, Acrididae. (volunteer)
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