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# grasshopper

«grasshopper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a green or brown insect with strong back legs that jumps far** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grasshopper, grasshoppers)

### meaning for a pupil

A grasshopper is a green or brown insect with strong back legs that jumps far. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the first jumper in a jumping contest; the frog and mouse jumps are told compared to it; in science, a grasshopper is an insect with 6 legs; it makes a chirping sound by rubbing its legs on its wings; phrases: «a grasshopper jumps», «grasshoppers chirp»

### examples

- The grasshopper jumped 25 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x1)
- The frog jumped 15 inches farther than the grasshopper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x2)
- The mouse jumped 9 inches less than the frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x3)
- How much farther did the grasshopper jump than the mouse? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x4)
- A grasshopper has 6 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x5)
- We heard grasshoppers chirping in the long grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x6)
- The grasshopper jumped onto a leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x7)
- Birds and frogs eat grasshoppers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x8)
- A Grasshopper sat chirping in the branches of a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/#x9)

### note

Countable: a grasshopper, grasshoppers. A name in a chain of comparisons. Trap: follow the chain step by step (grasshopper → frog → mouse); «farther than» adds, «less than» takes away. Like all insects, it has 6 legs.

### In the corpora

- [Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/16/)
- [Every insect has 6 legs: ants, beetles, bees, ladybirds and grasshoppers all walk on 6 legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/201-legs-on-insects-and-spiders/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grasshopper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grasshopper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.