Other forms: grasshoppers
A grasshopper is the green jumping insect that sings in summer fields. Grasshoppers in the grass, hear the grasshoppers, a green grasshopper.
It sings by rubbing a leg against a wing, and it hears through an organ on its abdomen. It jumps twenty times its own length using a catch mechanism in the leg that releases stored energy. A locust is a grasshopper that has changed under crowding.
1noungrasshopperA green jumping insect that sings in summer fields.
“A grasshopper jumped out of the long grass and landed on my arm.”
grasshopper is an insect.
Also accepted in games: cricket
Old English graeshoppa is grass plus hopper, from hoppian, to hop.
Old English
græshoppa — grasshopper
Middle English
grashoppere
English, today
grasshopper
From Middle English grashoppere, alteration of earlier grashoppe, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). Equivalent to grass + hopper. Cognate with stq Gäärshupper, Dutch grashupper, grashipper, German Low German Grashüpper, Gresshüpper, German Grashüpfer, Danish græshoppe, Swedish gräshoppa, Norwegian gresshoppe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA