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• Maybe girl grasshoppers find long legs attractive in boy grasshoppers, but what do I know?From the entry what do I know
• Insects like grasshoppers use a specialized structure called the furca to facilitate jumping.2025 January 12, David Grimaldi, “Which Insects Move By Jumping?”, in Entomology Club, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025. From the entry furca
• He used ants, grasshoppers and flies in his paintings based on his personal experiences.2022 August 27, John G. Stoffolano, Jr., “Synanthropic Flies—A Review Including How They Obtain Nutrients, along with Pathogens, Store…. From the entry entomophobe
• We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, Numbers 13:33. From the entry Nephilim
• Meloids are herbivorous as adults, and their larvae are parasites of bees or eat grasshopper eggs.2002, Frank N. Young, Jr.; Gene Kritsky, A Survey of Entomology, page 200. From the entry meloid
• Unlike Florida's other bandwinged species, southern greenstriped grasshopper lacks a bold, black band crossing the hind wing.2001, John L. Capinera, Clay W. Scherer, Jason M. Squitier, Grasshoppers of Florida, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, →ISBN…. From the entry greenstriped
• You were probably very interested in picking up and touching bugs such as carpenters and grasshoppers.1992, Heather Hunt, “Gender Equity in Science and its Related Fields”, in Chalkdust & Chewing Gum, St. John’s, N.L.: Jesperson Press…. From the entry unlady-like
• Le Conte's and sharptailed pass through on migration; grasshopper and Henslow's nest here.1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry sharptailed
• Even with these limitations, an artist such as Tom Doyle will use exotic pinks and grasshopper greens.1974, Julia M. Busch, A Decade of Sculpture: The 1960s, page 31. From the entry grasshopper green
• They lived chiefly on fish and roots, with now and then a delicacy such as grasshopper pie.1964, Robert Edgar Riegel, Robert G. Athearn, America Moves West, page 299. From the entry grasshopper pie
• Her father and her mother were the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat.1915 June, Jack London, “The Little Lady of the Big House”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 59, number 1, page 49. From the entry ring-tailed cat
• I quickly settled myself on my backside as a fox playfully chased a grasshopper around about fifty metres away.2021 June 28, Marcus O'Dean, Sporting Shooter. From the entry around about
• Notoriously hard to see, the grasshopper warbler tends to throw its voice over long distances, while it stays out of sight.2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian. From the entry grasshopper warbler
• But the other guy was a grasshopper.2014, Davide Enia, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry lay a glove on
• While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness!2008 January 16, “Nigeria: Wealth is Not a Measure of Achievement”, in AllAfrica.com. From the entry beggarliness
• The common grasshopper has a "superabsolute" sense of hearing.1965, Translations from Kommunist, U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, page 67. From the entry superabsolute
• One two three, four five six of a kick and a spit meant the grasshopper was counting and learning numbers.1923, Carl Sandburg, chapter 11, in Rootabaga Pigeons. From the entry say yes
• They met on summer days, put their hands in their pockets and traded each other grasshoppers learning to say yes and no.1923, Carl Sandburg, chapter 11, in Rootabaga Pigeons. From the entry say yes
• So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London. From the entry ceaselessly
• A particularly striking example of host manipulation called ‘summit disease’ occurs across a wide range of insect groups including aphids, grasshoppers, butterflies and moths, beetles and ants.2017, Jack Ashby, “Caterpillar with Parasitoid Fungus: Dried Specimen”, in Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects, Stroud…. From the entry summit disease
• Analysis of literature (see legend of Table 3) indicates that several species of grasshoppers have diverse diets (grasses and dicotyledonous plants), eg, C. barbarus, that is they are ambivores.2016, Sarah Mahloul, Abboud Harrat, Daniel Petit, “Diversity of grasshoppers (Caelifera) recorded on the banks of a Ramsar listed…. From the entry ambivore
• Females of the romaleid grasshopper Romalea guttata generate a defensive secretion in glands surrounding the metathoracic tracheal trunks and the secretion is stored in the tracheal lumina.2009, Jorg D. Hardege, Chemical Ecology, page 142. From the entry romaleid
• I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper.1973, Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Wild Pitch (Fiction), G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry bemean
• The coyote is very wise; the moon is very old, but who ever heard much of anything of credit to the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat?1915 June, Jack London, “The Little Lady of the Big House”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 59, number 1, page 49. From the entry ring-tailed cat

Meaning of grasshopper

1. noun A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
2. noun In the strict sense, refers to insects in the suborder Caelifera, particularly those in the family Acrididae.
3. noun In a looser sense, also includes the katydids (also known as longhorned grasshoppers or bush crickets), which are members of the family Tettigoniidae, of the suborder Ensifera.

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How do you use grasshopper in a sentence?

Grasshopper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Maybe girl grasshoppers find long legs attractive in boy grasshoppers, but what do I know?”

What is a short sentence with grasshopper?

“But the other guy was a grasshopper.”

What does grasshopper mean?

Grasshopper means a mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.