| 单词 | grasshopper eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasshopper eater grasshopper eater n. an animal or person that eats grasshoppers (cf. Grasshopper Indian n.). ΚΠ 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xxxi. 202 It is to bee observed, that all Grashopper-eaters are of a short life. 1785 Lounger (1787) No. 15. 136 I have been at all possible pains to discover..whether any traces still remain of that species of men of whom your learned countryman has taken notice..called the Ακριδοϕαγοι, Grasshopper-eaters, or, as I incline to render the word, Locust-eaters; but hitherto my inquiries have met with no degree of success. 1900 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 14 Apr. 435/1 The grasshopper eaters were met with in the mountains [in the Philippines], and quantities of the grasshoppers were seen distributed over mats on the sunny side of hills, in the process of drying out. 1957 Geogr. Mag. Nov. 289/1 Such birds as crow-shrikes, which are largely grasshopper-eaters, have prospered with the increase in pasture. 1998 M. Blakely Comanche Dawn (1999) xlviii. 382 Those Grasshopper eaters will not have women to make their lodges or their pole-drags... No father wants his daughter to marry a Grasshopper Eater. < as lemmas |
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