redlegged grasshopper
[ red-leg-id, -legd ]
noun
a migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus femur-rubrum, of the southwestern and midwestern U.S., having reddish skin on the underside of the hind legs: an agricultural pest.
Origin of redlegged grasshopper
1An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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