Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, a division of orthopterous insects, corresponding to the Linnean genus Gryllus, including those which are saltatory, having the hind legs fitted for leaping, as the Gryllidæ, Locustidæ, and Acridiidæ, or crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts: originally one of two sections (the other being Cursoria) into which Latreille divided the Orthoptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
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Examples
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Anybody who has experience with living walking sticks recognizes their obvious kinship with saltatoria i.e. grasshoppers and similar insects.
Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Disk: the central upper surface of any part; all the area within a margin; the central area of a wing: in Trichoptera, the obliquely ridged outer surface of hind femur in saltatoria.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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"_chrysomela oleracea_, _saltatoria_, _femoribus posticis crassissimis_."
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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