migratory grasshopper

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   serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States

   Broaderlocust

   Part ofMelanoplus

Questions about migratory grasshopper

What does migratory grasshopper mean?

migratory grasshopper means "serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States".

Is migratory grasshopper a common word?

migratory grasshopper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.