grasshopper
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- noun
- /ˈɡræsˌhɑpər/
- All grasshopper IPM strategies rely on understanding grasshopper biology and accurately predicting outbreaks.
- grasshopper behavior
- grasshopper forage
- grasshopper eggs
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Watch on YouTubeSo if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.
- So if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.
- Meanwhile, their neighbor, the Grasshopper, spent the summer hopping around in the sun.
- So the prey of barn owls are mice and insects like grasshoppers that are done on the floor.
- And, and these people might as well be as foreign as an extraterrestrial life form to the grasshopper, the monkey, and the Alabama guy.
- I did mental things like eating live cockroaches, live grasshoppers, the most absurd things.
- It thickens up the wings on the grasshopper and holds them stiff so that you can pour the liquid of the mould over it again.
- The narcissist is walking around rescuing all the neighborhood grasshoppers and giving food to the neighbors and I'm not doing those things.
- So then you're able to control the grasshopper noises, the car driving by, the the bird flying by and the person talking.
Examples
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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.
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The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food.
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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.
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A green grasshopper jumped from one blade of grass to another in the sunny field.
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In warm weather, grasshoppers can be seen hopping across the tall grass.
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The farmer noticed that the grasshopper was eating the crops in the garden.
Synonyms
A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops
A grasshopper with short antennae often found in fields
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A small mouse from western North America that hunts insects and scorpions and makes loud howls
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A grasshopper with very long feelers that makes sounds with its wings
- Specialized
An insect that moves in large swarms and eats crops like wheat and pasture plants
- Specialized
A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops
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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.