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SAND CRICKET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sand cricket mean?
• SAND CRICKET (noun)
The noun SAND CRICKET has 1 sense:
1. large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
Familiarity information: SAND CRICKET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus
Hypernyms ("sand cricket" is a kind of...):
long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid (grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male)
Holonyms ("sand cricket" is a member of...):
genus Stenopelmatus; Stenopelmatus (sand crickets)
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