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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of saltatorial orthopterous insects, including the locusts or short-horned grasshoppers, having the hind legs fitted by enlargement of the femora for leaping: related to the crickets (Gryllidæ) and to the long-horned grasshoppers and katydids (Locustidæ).

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