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Definition of Grasshoppers

1. grasshopper [n] - See also: grasshopper

Medical Definition of Grasshoppers

1. Plant-eating orthopterans having hindlegs adapted for jumping. There are several families and many genera. Some of the more common genera are: melanoplus, the most common grasshopper; conocephalus, the eastern meadow grasshopper; and pterophylla, the true katydid. (12 Dec 1998)

Literary usage of Grasshoppers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of by John Wesley Clampitt (1888)
"THE Grasshoppers-GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DESCENT UPON THE VALLEY OF SALT LAKE ... Of course, I had heard much of the famous armies of grasshoppers that, ..."

2. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1877)
"Brown : The grasshoppers Have destroyed about all the wheat, rye, and timothy that have come up, and will doubtless destroy all that has been sowed. ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The antennae of the grasshoppers are long and threadlike, as in the crickets. The wings of grasshoppers, as of locusts, fold together like the sides of a ..."

4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1888)
"Miscellaneous. Crickets. and crickets. Grasshoppers Ci ... Grasshoppers and crickets. Do. Remains of insecte. Snake; grasshoppers; crickets; larvée. ..."

5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1902)
"A paper entitled "Locusts and Grasshoppers" (illustrated by specimens from the author's ... FA WALKER, DD, FLS LOCUSTS and grasshoppers may bs regarded as ..."

6. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"The wings of grasshoppers, as of locusts, fold together like the sides of a roof, whilst those of crickets aro horizontal when at rest Grasshoppers, ..."

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