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grasshopper Definition

grass·hop·per (gras′häp′ər)

noun

  1. any of various families (esp. Acrididae) of leaping, plant-eating orthopteran insects with powerful hind legs adapted for jumping
  2. a cocktail made of green crème de menthe, cream, and, usually colorless crème de cacao
  3. ☆ Mil. Slang a small, light airplane for scouting, liaison, and observation

Etymology: ME grashoppere, extended with -er suffix (see -er) < greshoppe < OE gærshoppe < gærs (see grass) + base of hoppian (see hop)

grasshopper Synonyms

grasshopper

n.

Insects commonly called grasshoppers include: katydid, locust, cricket, green grasshopper, short-horned grasshopper, long-horned grasshopper, red-legged grasshopper, Rocky Mountain grasshopper, Mormon cricket, hateful grasshopper; Acristida, Locusta, Gryllus (all Latin); hopper*, hoppergrass*.

grasshopper Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: Common and conspicuous insects include grasshoppers, earwigs, and many species of beetles, butterflies and moths.
  • see: Hoy is the only island in Orkney where you can see grasshoppers.
  • shiver: The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
  • post: Grasshopper Posted on 7:35 pm on April 24, 2006 I cant agree, tdk.
  • find: Hot summer days will find the heath grasshopper and bees on the heather blossoms, and solitary wasps mining tunnels in sandy banks.
  • do: ANSWER Feet Q8 How does a grasshopper produce its distinctive sound?

Preposition: in

  • grass: And those walking beneath the table on a hot summer's day might be forgiven for feeling like grasshoppers in the grass.

Adjective modifier

  • green: A triangular open area of wavy hair grass is home for the common green grasshopper.
  • large: Some beautiful and very large Grasshoppers were about, also a few big spiders but none that might bother you.
  • common: A triangular open area of wavy hair grass is home for the common green grasshopper.
  • live: Perhaps this is understandable after the dressing down he got from his father when he caught a trout on a live grasshopper.
  • small: The parts of all the fleas, are taken by small grasshoppers, painted black.
  • fried: Didn't enjoy stumbling over the fried grasshoppers for snacks either!

Modifies a noun

  • warbler: Grasshopper Warblers appear most years, often in the scrubby areas near the gas towers.
  • mentality: That's how to move from a grasshopper mentality to a giant killer mentality!
  • specie: Mating signal variation and bimodality in a mosaic hybrid zone in Chorthippus grasshopper species.
  • escapement: A pleasing clock to look at with it's grasshopper escapement.
  • buzzard: Grasshopper Buzzards were now common in the changed habitat.

Noun used with modifier

  • marsh: Roesel's, dark and speckled bush-crickets are also in the Meadow, as is lesser marsh grasshopper.
  • field: Stripe-winged, mottled, common green and field grasshoppers are abundant across the sun baked slopes of the fort.
grasshopper Quotes

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valleyand rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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