Grasshopper
noun
A small green insect that can jump far distances using its back legs.
The grasshopper is an insect that can leap over fifty times its body length.
Often appears as...
- catch a grasshopper
- cricket and grasshopper
noun
Someone who is new and still learning.
In the new job, he felt like a grasshopper in the big corporate world.
Often appears as...
- feel like a grasshopper
- call someone a grasshopper
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A cocktail made with cream, crème de menthe, and crème de cacao.
She ordered a grasshopper after dinner, craving its mint-chocolate flavor.
Often appears as...
- order a grasshopper
- mix a grasshopper
noun
A small green insect that can jump far distances using its back legs.
The grasshopper is an insect that can leap over fifty times its body length.
Often appears as...
- catch a grasshopper
- cricket and grasshopper
noun
Someone who is new and still learning.
In the new job, he felt like a grasshopper in the big corporate world.
Often appears as...
- feel like a grasshopper
- call someone a grasshopper
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A cocktail made with cream, crème de menthe, and crème de cacao.
She ordered a grasshopper after dinner, craving its mint-chocolate flavor.
Often appears as...
- order a grasshopper
- mix a grasshopper
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a small green insect hopping. This visual helps remember its meaning and spelling.
The child drew a picture of a grasshopper.
Pro Tip 2/3Sound Association
Grasshoppers make a chirping sound by rubbing their legs, similar to crickets.
At night, the chirping of a grasshopper was the only sound.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitat
Grasshoppers are commonly found in fields or near greenery.
Grasshoppers thrive in the grassy plains.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a small green insect hopping. This visual helps remember its meaning and spelling.
The child drew a picture of a grasshopper.
Pro Tip 2/3Sound Association
Grasshoppers make a chirping sound by rubbing their legs, similar to crickets.
At night, the chirping of a grasshopper was the only sound.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitat
Grasshoppers are commonly found in fields or near greenery.
Grasshoppers thrive in the grassy plains.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a small green insect hopping. This visual helps remember its meaning and spelling.
The child drew a picture of a grasshopper.
Pro Tip 2/3Sound Association
Grasshoppers make a chirping sound by rubbing their legs, similar to crickets.
At night, the chirping of a grasshopper was the only sound.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitat
Grasshoppers are commonly found in fields or near greenery.
Grasshoppers thrive in the grassy plains.
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Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
of grass probably going towards the water's edge which will be a great place for it to go to because they seem to be lots of insects we saw that grasshopper that had landed in that lizard wouldn't be afraid to run to the edge of the water and grab something like that or perhaps it's looking for some flies that
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How kids can help design...
figure prominently into children's pictures. Whether it's because they're closer to the ground and can see the grasshoppers better than we can, or simply because they have a greater sense of empathy for other beings, children almost always include non-human species in their ideal worlds.
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Eli the eel: A...
for most of her life in the stream, eating whatever falls in the grasshoppers, crickets, small fish, insect larvae, frogs, baby birds, almost anything she can get her mouth around. And she will grow quite big, up to four feet long and weighing as much as thirteen pounds.
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Metal that breathes PIPE...
This last project is also of components. The influence -- and if you have noticed, one of my spheres of influence is biology -- is from a grasshopper. And grasshoppers have a different kind of breathing system. They breathe through holes in their sides called spiracles,
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
these things drive so many crickets and grasshoppers into the water that the drowned insects make up some 60 percent of the diet of local trout. Manipulation is not an oddity. It is a critical and common part of the world around us, and scientists have now found
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
of arizona it's called a grasshopper locals call it scorpion mouse it doesn't just eat insects or ordinary creatures it actually goes out and hunts scorpions what's remarkable about that is that a scorpion is about the same size of the mouth so
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Just add water: The...
In fact, most of the time desert locusts are no more dangerous than garden-variety grasshoppers. So what does it take to turn these harmless insects into a crop-consuming plague? Desert locust eggs are laid in the damp depths of desert soil,
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How Do You Become Santa...
centered and they offer their experiences or tricks to help you become a better Santa because you never learn at all I'm not worthy the simple grasshopper here I help I pick out one or two other rookie Santa's and give
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Falcon Mid-Air Attack PIPE...
a bat is a rare delicacy for these hawkins their diet consists mostly of small birds and large insects like dragonflies grasshoppers and moths but this day seems to bring an unusual
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Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
cannibals I'm talking of them getting grasshoppers getting locusts getting small mammals rodents mice and once some world you also got them catching snakes
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
of grass probably going towards the water's edge which will be a great place for it to go to because they seem to be lots of insects we saw that grasshopper that had landed in that lizard wouldn't be afraid to run to the edge of the water and grab something like that or perhaps it's looking for some flies that
Video examples
How kids can help design...
figure prominently into children's pictures. Whether it's because they're closer to the ground and can see the grasshoppers better than we can, or simply because they have a greater sense of empathy for other beings, children almost always include non-human species in their ideal worlds.
Video examples
Eli the eel: A...
for most of her life in the stream, eating whatever falls in the grasshoppers, crickets, small fish, insect larvae, frogs, baby birds, almost anything she can get her mouth around. And she will grow quite big, up to four feet long and weighing as much as thirteen pounds.
Video examples
Metal that breathes PIPE...
This last project is also of components. The influence -- and if you have noticed, one of my spheres of influence is biology -- is from a grasshopper. And grasshoppers have a different kind of breathing system. They breathe through holes in their sides called spiracles,
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
these things drive so many crickets and grasshoppers into the water that the drowned insects make up some 60 percent of the diet of local trout. Manipulation is not an oddity. It is a critical and common part of the world around us, and scientists have now found
Video examples
Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
of arizona it's called a grasshopper locals call it scorpion mouse it doesn't just eat insects or ordinary creatures it actually goes out and hunts scorpions what's remarkable about that is that a scorpion is about the same size of the mouth so
Video examples
Just add water: The...
In fact, most of the time desert locusts are no more dangerous than garden-variety grasshoppers. So what does it take to turn these harmless insects into a crop-consuming plague? Desert locust eggs are laid in the damp depths of desert soil,
Video examples
How Do You Become Santa...
centered and they offer their experiences or tricks to help you become a better Santa because you never learn at all I'm not worthy the simple grasshopper here I help I pick out one or two other rookie Santa's and give
Video examples
Falcon Mid-Air Attack PIPE...
a bat is a rare delicacy for these hawkins their diet consists mostly of small birds and large insects like dragonflies grasshoppers and moths but this day seems to bring an unusual
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
cannibals I'm talking of them getting grasshoppers getting locusts getting small mammals rodents mice and once some world you also got them catching snakes
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.
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Derrick Jensen
American Author
I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
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Peter Stormare
Swedish Actor
I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.
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Diane Ackerman
American Poet
Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.
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Betty Boothroyd
British Politician
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.
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John Muir
American Environmentalist
A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.
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Chunky Pandey
Indian Actor
I have eaten grasshoppers in Thailand, snails in France, ostrich in Australia, crocodile in South Africa and Polar Bear meat in Moscow.
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Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.
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Ben Silbermann
American Businessman
I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.
Quote examples
Nick Clegg
British Politician
I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.
Quote examples
Derrick Jensen
American Author
I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
Quote examples
Nostradamus
French Celebrity
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
Quote examples
Peter Stormare
Swedish Actor
I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.
Quote examples
Diane Ackerman
American Poet
Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.
Quote examples
Betty Boothroyd
British Politician
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.
Quote examples
John Muir
American Environmentalist
A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.
Quote examples
Chunky Pandey
Indian Actor
I have eaten grasshoppers in Thailand, snails in France, ostrich in Australia, crocodile in South Africa and Polar Bear meat in Moscow.
Quote examples
Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.
Quote examples
Ben Silbermann
American Businessman
I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.
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