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grasshopper

grasshopper

32 1.0
A green or brown insect with long back legs that jumps in fields
  • noun
  • /ˈɡræsˌhɑpər/
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  • All grasshopper IPM strategies rely on understanding grasshopper biology and accurately predicting outbreaks.
  • grasshopper behavior
  • grasshopper forage
  • grasshopper eggs

So if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.

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Examples

  • Our early tests indicate that this pathogen could be very deadly to these grasshoppers," says Streett.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Most recently, from 1984 to 1987, grasshoppers infested 55 million acres in 17 western states.

    Academic text (1996)
  • My mom is scared of grasshoppers.

  • The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food.

  • The sidewalks were thick with brown grasshoppers that had come in from the desert.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I saw her once dining on grasshoppers and red chili at a fashionable Hollywood restaurant.

  • A green grasshopper jumped from one blade of grass to another in the sunny field.

  • In warm weather, grasshoppers can be seen hopping across the tall grass.

  • The farmer noticed that the grasshopper was eating the crops in the garden.

Synonyms

short-horned grasshopper
vsgrasshopper
  • Specialized
5.5

A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops

is the broader plant-eating jumping insect term not limited to antenna type
acridid
vsgrasshopper
  • Specialized
9.9

A grasshopper with short antennae often found in fields

is the common jumping insect term rather than a family classification

Idioms

Very small and young, especially a child

Compounds

7.7

A grasshopper with very long feelers that makes sounds with its wings

migratory grasshopper
  • Specialized
7.7

An insect that moves in large swarms and eats crops like wheat and pasture plants

A small mouse from western North America that hunts insects and scorpions and makes loud howls

5.5

A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops

How Big

locust
32 4.1
grasshopper
32 1.0
cricket
73 1.3
ant
308 1.0

Surface Forms

grasshopper singular
grasshoppers plural

Morphology

grasshopper = grass + hopper (transparent) = grass + hopper

The parts 'grass' and 'hopper' directly describe an insect that hops in grass, so the compound's meaning is predictable from its components.

Etymology

Grasshopper is simply grass + hopper, and the hopper part is the same as the common verb hop, which means 'to jump'. So a grasshopper is a jumping insect often found in grass.