HyperDic: sand_cricket

English > 1 sense of the expression sand cricket:
NOUNanimalsand cricket, Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscuslarge wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
English > sand cricket: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglarge wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States.
SynonymsJerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus
Member ofStenopelmatus, genus Stenopelmatussand crickets
Broaderlong-horned grasshopper, tettigoniidgrasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male

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