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单词 grasshopper hunting
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grasshopper hunting
b. Objective, as grasshopper-destroyer, grasshopper hunting, etc.; grasshopper-eating, grasshopper-killing, etc., adjs.
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1784 Ld. Monboddo Antient Metaphysics III. ii. xii. 264 A nation that he calls..Grasshopper-Eaters, whom he describes exactly as Sir Francis Drake has described them.
1879 Bull. Nuttall Ornithol. Club 4 111 The grasshopper-eating habits of the Red-headed Woodpecker.
1902 Rural New-Yorker 26 July 517/2 Last week reference was made to a western scheme for creating interest in grasshopper killing.
1915 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia July ii. 44 This bird [sc. the Desert Sparrow-hawk] ranks very high as a grasshopper-destroyer and is abundant everywhere during the summer.
1960 N. Smiley Trop. Planting & Gardening for S. Florida & W. Indies xvii. 187 A grasshopper-killing insecticide should be applied..whenever these pests appear in very large numbers.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 July (Final ed.) a14 A lengthy drought, which killed off grasshopper-eating insects and animals.
1985 Audubon Jan. 81/3 Grasshopper hunting seems to combine pursuit of food with fun and games. The roadrunner stirs the grasshoppers into flight, then leaps wildly to snatch them from mid-air.
2004 C. Savage Prairie viii. 231 The ground was strewn with sleek gray-and-white flight feathers, presumably shed by one or another species of grasshopper-hunting songbirds.
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