| 单词 | grasshopper-infested |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasshopper-infested c. Instrumental, as grasshopper-eaten, grasshopper-infested, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 July 2/6 News received Saturday at St. Paul, Minn., from the grasshopper-infested region, gives the gratifying intelligence that the pests are generally on the wing, moving southward under the impetus of a north wind. 1874 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 5 Nov. 716/3 Late advices from the grasshopper-ravaged districts of southwestern Nebraska state that the full extent of the misery in the barren country has not yet been told. 1919 Agric. Exper. Station (Kansas State Agric. Coll.) No. 73. 8 It is good farm practice to seed grasshopper eaten borders, washed out ravines, and patches which have drowned out, to Sudan grass. 1939 J. R. Parker Grasshoppers & their Control (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1828) 30 Grasshopper-infested stubble land which is to be summer-fallowed should be plowed before the eggs hatch. 1954 Macdonald Farm Jrnl. June 14/1 There should be little fear that modern agricultural chemicals are a threat to Canadian wildlife. Dead forests and grasshopper-devastated prairies are infinitely more dangerous. 2015 T. L. Marzell Chalkboard Heroes vi. 87 For months she trudged around the most isolated, drought-ravaged, grasshopper-plagued portions of the state. < as lemmas |
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