Mosquito vs Grasshopper - What's the difference?
mosquito | grasshopper |
A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
English nouns with irregular plurals
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A herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera noted for its ability to jump long distances.
A cocktail made with and optionally with creme de cacao.
(figuratively) a young student in initial stages of training who has been chosen on account of their obvious talent
* 2009 , B.P. Terpstra, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2:
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.
As a proper noun mosquito
is the de havilland mosquito, a second world war military aircraft.As a noun grasshopper is
a herbivorous insect of the order orthoptera noted for its ability to jump long distances.mosquito
English
(wikipedia mosquito)Noun
(en-noun)Hypernyms
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* Mosquito Coast * mosquito coil * mosquito bar * mosquito fleet * mosquito hawk * mosquito net, mosquito nettingVerb
(en verb)grasshopper
English
(wikipedia grasshopper)Noun
(en noun)- Although we don't know exactly why Li is chosen to dance, we witness a man assuring officials that the child isn't from bourgeois stock. Phew. There are no known landowners in the family, so the grasshopper passes some cultural purity test, in a state often fixated on class warfare, driven by the cult of personality, and bullied by paranoia.
- (Grove)