Ladybird vs Grasshopper - What's the difference?
ladybird | grasshopper |
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
* 1914 , Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America , Volume 7,
* 1927 , Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood?s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury , Volume 1,
* 1976' September 30, Denis Owen, '''''Ladybird''', '''ladybird , fly away home'', ,
* 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology , Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition,
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:
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As nouns the difference between ladybird and grasshopper
is that ladybird is any of the coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra while grasshopper is a herbivorous insect of the order orthoptera noted for its ability to jump long distances.ladybird
English
(wikipedia ladybird)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)page 81,
- During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird', making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ' ladybird .
Gutenberg eBook #19993,
- Lady-bird', ' lady-bird , fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
page 686,
- Ladybirds , unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
page 2130,
- Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds' in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ' ladybird species into North America.
Usage notes
The term ladybird is used both in British and US English, although the alternative ladybug is common in the US.Synonyms
* (beetle) coccinellid, ladybug (North America), lady beetle (term preferred by some scientists), lady cow (obsolete), lady fly (obsolete)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)