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TREE CRICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tree cricket mean? 

TREE CRICKET (noun)
  The noun TREE CRICKET has 1 sense:

1. pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulationplay

  Familiarity information: TREE CRICKET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TREE CRICKET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tree cricket" is a kind of...):

cricket (leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree cricket"):

Oecanthus fultoni; snowy tree cricket (pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America)

Holonyms ("tree cricket" is a member of...):

genus Oecanthus; Oecanthus (tree crickets)


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