grasshopper
意味
- バッタ・キリギリス・イナゴの類の総称
例文
A grasshopper and many ants lived in a field.
1匹のキリギリスと多くのアリが野原に住んでいた。
That's not a cricket. It's a grasshopper.
それはコオロギじゃない。バッタだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English grashoppere, alteration of earlier grashoppe, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). Equivalent to grass + hopper. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäärshupper, Dutch grashupper, grashipper, German Low German Grashüpper, Gresshüpper, German Grashüpfer, Danish græshoppe, Swedish gräshoppa, Norwegian gresshoppe.