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What is a grasshopper?

What is a grasshopper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera noted for its ability to jump long distances and for its habit of communicating by stridulation.
  2. (figuratively) a young student in initial stages of training who has been chosen on account of their obvious talent
  3. In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key.
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Thermal conditions in the previous year were strongly associated with grasshopper abundance in this oldfield prairie.
These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning.
The insect was later confirmed to be an Egyptian grasshopper, a voracious plant-eater normally found only in the Mediterranean area.
The immature nymphs of hemimetabolous insects such as the grasshopper or cockroach for instance are born with adult-like morphology.
Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints.
As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident.

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