| 单词 | grasshopper season |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasshopper season grasshopper season n. the period of the year when grasshoppers are abundant, typically reaching its peak in late summer.Sometimes with specific reference to the destruction of crops by grasshoppers in such a period; cf. grasshopper year n. ΚΠ 1847 Vermont Chron. 29 Sept. 155/3 He had observed for several ‘Grasshopper seasons’, quite a prevailing disease among sheep, and that this disease was termed the ‘scald-mouth’. 1881 A. A. Hayes New Colorado i. 21 There was hardly any farming in the early times; there were terrible grasshopper seasons before 1876. 1961 Ecology 42 93/1 The grasshopper season is shorter in the marshes (3 as compared to 6 months). 2018 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 3 The Grasshopper Carnival..traditionally marked the arrival of the grasshopper season and the insect's use as fishing bait. < as lemmas |
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