Footganger

Quick meaning: Footganger is a noun meaning (entomology) A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.

Meaning

(entomology) A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.

Example Sentences

Midway between Bloomfontein and Kimberley, while riding with Major Beresford, of the South African Constabulary, at the foot of some low hills in the Karoo bush, I came across great numbers of the footgangers.

We passed several swarms of locusts in the footganger stage; but owing to the lateness of their appearance the damage they effected was slight, though we met many people coming from the west, whose crops had been utterly destroyed.

Word Forms

• footgangers
• foot-ganger

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foot-ganger, voetganger, hopper, groundhopper, leaf hopper, fledgling.

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