GRASSHOPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grasshopper mean? 

• GRASSHOPPER (noun)
  The noun GRASSHOPPER has 2 senses:

1. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

2. a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)

  Familiarity information: GRASSHOPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRASSHOPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grasshopper; hopper

Hypernyms ("grasshopper" is a kind of...):

orthopteran; orthopteron; orthopterous insect (any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grasshopper"):

acridid; short-horned grasshopper (grasshopper with short antennae)

long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid (grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("grasshopper" is a kind of...):

cocktail (a short mixed drink)

Meronyms (substance of "grasshopper"):

creme de menthe (sweet green or white mint-flavored liqueur)

 Context examples 

Kestrels consume crop pests such as grasshoppers, rodents and European starlings.

(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)

He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The invertebrate cell adhesion molecules fasciclin II (grasshoppers and Drosophila) and apCAM (Aplysia) are related to NCAM and can mediate homophilic cell aggregation.

(CD56 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic class of arthropods that includes praying mantises, dragonflies, grasshoppers, true bugs, flies, bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, and beetles.

(Insect, NCI Thesaurus)

There is a cost associated with making these traits, says Poethig, senior author of the report, “but the plant needs them, otherwise it’s a goner. Dan showed: no ants, no plants. The plant is eaten by everything from grasshoppers to mice. So there’s a tradeoff happening. And what we found is that these traits seem to have evolved on the back of a preexisting pathway that governs a developmental transition in plants.###!!!###

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)