- red-legged grasshopper
- noun Date: 1867 a widely distributed and sometimes highly destructive small North American grasshopper (Melanoplus femur-rubrum) with red hind legs — called also red-legged locust
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
red-legged grasshopper
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