ORTHOPTERA
\ˈɔːθəptəɹə], \ˈɔːθəptəɹə], \ˈɔː_θ_ə_p_t_ə_ɹ_ə]\
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An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.