The word "grasshopper" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to the insect species of the same name, generally of the subfamily Caelifera. Example sentence: I watched as the grasshopper hopped between the blades of grass in the meadow.
Having grown up in a house made of prairie mud bricks, unprotected from dust and grasshopper invasions, the inventor dies a millionaire.
ReprintsThat is surprising, because work done in the Canadian Arctic suggests that POPs move north by what is called the "grasshopper effect".
(The two-man "Duo" is by Mr Forsythe, and appears in this programme as her personal tribute to the American). technê", by Akram Khan, a British-born Bangladeshi, sees Ms Guillem circling in a pool of light a tree made of wire, clearly, at the start, imitating a grasshopper.
He spent four years in Indonesia, where he attended local schools (including a Muslim one) and ate local delicacies such as dog, grasshopper and snake, on which his stepfather fed him.
And nothing recently in the corporate world has fallen quite so spectacularly as Enron, the Houston-based oil-and-gas company that flew so high it made Icarus look like a grasshopper.
In a number of trials it achieved a more profound kill of various locust and grasshopper species, more selectively than standard chemical insecticides.
If Alberta's current leaders are serious about making the transformation from grasshopper to ant they might want to give his report a read.
A SCULPTED grasshopper that measures six feet (1.85 metres) in length stands at the entrance to the private apartments at Windsor Castle.
I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
The surprising answer from many experts is a cautious maybe.Be patient, grasshopper"Do not be fooled by the early caution," says Chen Bo of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, who has advised the government on the SFTZ.
All of which goes to show that the real root of wisdom is this: do not assume, little grasshopper, that your prejudices are correct.
