Книга: Vine Barbara «Grasshopper»
Серия: "-" From the writer Patricia Cornwell calls the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times comes a typically astute and suspenseful tale of what happens when a taste for dangerous heights becomes a way of life. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2002)
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Grasshopper — Grass hop per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families {Acridid[ae]} and {Locustid[ae]}, having large hind legs adapted for leaping, and chewing mouth parts. The species and genera are very numerous and some are very… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
grasshopper — (n.) mid 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c.1200), from O.E. gærshoppa; see GRASS (Cf. grass) + HOP (Cf. hop). Cf. M.Swed. gräshoppare, Ger. Grashüpfer. As a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii:5. Also recorded c.1300 as a name for… … Etymology dictionary
grasshopper — ► NOUN ▪ a plant eating insect with long hind legs which are used for jumping and for producing a chirping sound … English terms dictionary
grasshopper — [gras′häp΄ər] n. [ME grashoppere, extended with er suffix (see ER) < greshoppe < OE gærshoppe < gærs (see GRASS) + base of hoppian (see HOP1)] 1. any of various families (esp. Acrididae) of leaping, plant eating orthopteran insects with… … English World dictionary
Grasshopper — Grasshoppers Voller Name Grasshopper Club Zürich Gegründet 1. September 1886 Stadion … Deutsch Wikipedia
Grasshopper — Taxobox name = Caelifera fossil range=Late Permian Recent image width = 250px image caption = Immature grasshopper regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Hexapoda classis = Insecta ordo = Orthoptera subordo = Caelifera subdivision… … Wikipedia