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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
grasshopper .
Etymologies
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Examples
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IT was still dark when Dr. Thomas A. Farley got to Central Park on a cool October morning and started stretching his grasshopperlike legs, blending into the background in black shorts and a T-shirt.
NYT > Home Page By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS 2010
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She tried to avoid catching sight of her hologram-enhanced lower body, which seemed to sport the grasshopperlike Hranrarii feature of redundant forward-and-backward knee joints; while this characteristic looked every bit as genuine as the rest of Vale’s amphibious persona, she knew that it couldn’t withstand a thorough inspection, such as a body search.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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She tried to avoid catching sight of her hologram-enhanced lower body, which seemed to sport the grasshopperlike Hranrarii feature of redundant forward-and-backward knee joints; while this characteristic looked every bit as genuine as the rest of Vale’s amphibious persona, she knew that it couldn’t withstand a thorough inspection, such as a body search.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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She tried to avoid catching sight of her hologram-enhanced lower body, which seemed to sport the grasshopperlike Hranrarii feature of redundant forward-and-backward knee joints; while this characteristic looked every bit as genuine as the rest of Vale’s amphibious persona, she knew that it couldn’t withstand a thorough inspection, such as a body search.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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