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Insect with powerful hind legs
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grasshopper
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The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (as an ordinary queen) but only by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square immediately closest. If there is no piece to hop over, it cannot move. If the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c.1200), from Old English gærshoppa ; see grass + hop . Similar formation in Middle Swedish gräshoppare , German Grashüpfer . As a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii:5. Also recorded c.1300 as a name for ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grasshopper \Grass"hop`per\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acridid[ae] and Locustid[ae] , having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive ...
Usage examples of grasshopper.
After she had several years enjoyed the admiration and affection of the Antiochians, she was taken with a desire to revisit Alexandria, and show her glory in that city in which, as a child, she had wandered in want and shame, hungry and lean as a grasshopper in the middle of a dusty road.
The birdcage guys are ferrying meter-wide chips of water ice through the veils hung over their filigree space ship, busy as ants tearing apart a grasshopper.
The Jackrabbit had rented pasturage there, partially sheltered from the icy blasts, to the Grasshopper and the Wilddog in the winter months, and they were well paid for this in cattle and horses.
Grasshopper Horde was sacrificed to the Owner of all wild horses, dragged to death by the released animal at the end of a long rope.
The droughts, hot winds and grasshoppers took them, as witness the Entryman and his wife who homesteaded this identical land in 1893 .
Grasshoppers are as thick walking up the east side of the house as they are on the ground, and they are not going around the attic window.
Wind puffs rattled the cotton-woods, dust swirled hi the road stirring grasshoppers up into their crackling, chili-red flights.
The casura was nothing but eyes and mouths and rootlike, spidery hands, the whole flung together like chopped grasshoppers caught in a threshing basket.
Aggressive and gluttonous, it can eat massive quantities of insects, including beetles, caterpillars and grasshoppers.
The grasshoppers will go after the sweet concoction, and the birds, especially currawongs, will go after the grasshoppers.
However, both Jewish and Christian fundamentalists get the vague notion that the Canaanites were two hundred feet tall, so that ordinary human beings were as grasshoppers in comparison.
She looked around: a T in the road 3 dust settling behind her, brown-eyed Susans and skunk cabbage bobbing in the ditch, grasshoppers jumping and munching among the quack grass and dandelions around the car, wild mustard blooming tiredly in the dry-wash ditch and the incessant note of the katydids hidden in the weeds and grasses.
Grasshoppers, praying mantises something like that they were so, they were so precise.
The Aztéca lived on that Grasshopper Hill while their priests continued to range about the valley in search of the eagle on the nopali.
Martha several basketfuls of crabs, snails, grasshoppers, and locusts, which proved to be the ordinary provision of the natives.