Akademik

Melanoplus

noun

New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers

• Syn: ↑genus Melanoplus

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Acrididae, ↑family Acrididae, ↑Locustidae, ↑family Locustidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑migratory grasshopper

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\\mə̇ˈlanəpləs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from melan- + -oplus (from Greek hoplon tool, implement) — more at hoplite

: a large American genus containing the migratory locusts of the western United States and other common American grasshoppers

Useful english dictionary. 2012.