Definition of Grasshopper

a plant-eating insect with long hind legs it uses for jumping and chirping

Examples of Grasshopper in a sentence

The easiest way to identify a grasshopper is by the very long back legs, which it uses to leap high into the air.  🔊

A grasshopper chirps by rubbing its long legs against its wings, as opposed to crickets, which do so just by rubbing their wings together.  🔊

A cricket and a grasshopper look very similar, but the latter is usually green while a cricket is brown.  🔊

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