"schistocerca" meaning in English

See schistocerca in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: schistocercas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|mul|Schistocerca}} translingual Schistocerca Head templates: {{en-noun}} schistocerca (plural schistocercas)
  1. (entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Entomology, Taxonomy Categories (lifeform): Crickets and grasshoppers Synonyms: bird grasshopper Related terms: Schistocerca
    Sense id: en-schistocerca-en-noun-uSSAAKI0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mul",
        "3": "Schistocerca"
      },
      "expansion": "translingual Schistocerca",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "schistocercas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "schistocerca (plural schistocercas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crickets and grasshoppers",
          "orig": "en:Crickets and grasshoppers",
          "parents": [
            "Insects",
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Entomology",
          "orig": "en:Entomology",
          "parents": [
            "Arthropodology",
            "Zoology",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Taxonomy",
          "orig": "en:Taxonomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Evolutionary theory",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin, California., archived from the original on 2023-11-23:",
          "text": "All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit:",
          "text": "Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters. We give them dried oats and green cabbage but they should also be able to survive on grass, carrots, anything really.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca."
      ],
      "id": "en-schistocerca-en-noun-uSSAAKI0",
      "links": [
        [
          "entomology",
          "entomology"
        ],
        [
          "taxonomy",
          "taxonomy"
        ],
        [
          "Schistocerca",
          "Schistocerca#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Schistocerca"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bird grasshopper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "entomology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "taxonomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "schistocerca"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mul",
        "3": "Schistocerca"
      },
      "expansion": "translingual Schistocerca",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "schistocercas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "schistocerca (plural schistocercas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Schistocerca"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Translingual",
        "English terms derived from Translingual",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Crickets and grasshoppers",
        "en:Entomology",
        "en:Taxonomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin, California., archived from the original on 2023-11-23:",
          "text": "All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit:",
          "text": "Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters. We give them dried oats and green cabbage but they should also be able to survive on grass, carrots, anything really.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "entomology",
          "entomology"
        ],
        [
          "taxonomy",
          "taxonomy"
        ],
        [
          "Schistocerca",
          "Schistocerca#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bird grasshopper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "entomology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "taxonomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "schistocerca"
}

Download raw JSONL data for schistocerca meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.