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grasshopper
has definitions from the fields of zoology,food
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[ noun ] (zoology) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
Synonyms Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward . In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort_Douglas ) and in December 1819 , twenty men left Fort_Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie_du_Chien . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Fuzzy caterpillars , snails with their sensitive horns , struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind_legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco , spit '' . |
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[ noun ] (food) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)
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