grasshopper : Idioms & Phrases

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Grasshopper engine

  • a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point.
Webster 1913

Grasshopper lobster

  • (Zoöl.) a young lobster. Local, U. S.
Webster 1913

grasshopper mouse

  • noun insectivorous mouse of western North America
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Grasshopper warbler

  • (Zoöl.), cricket bird.
Webster 1913

long-horned grasshopper

  • noun grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
    tettigoniid.
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Lubber grasshopper

  • (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida.
Webster 1913

migratory grasshopper

  • noun serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States
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short-horned grasshopper

  • noun grasshopper with short antennae
    acridid.
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