house cricket

American  

noun

1. a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.

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Etymology

Origin of house cricket

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

A third, the house cricket, could follow soon.

From Reuters

Consider the common house cricket, Acheta domesticus.

From Newsweek

Country house cricket was popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

From BBC

First, the researchers recorded vibrations of male spiders venturing onto females’ webs as well as the vibrations made when a house fly or house cricket got trapped by the sticky silk.

From Washington Post

All hope of further intimacy between this antagonistic pair ended during the following summer term, when to Philip's unutterable amazement, Mr. Brett declined to speak to him for the space of three days, because Philip, by inadvertently running out the most promising batsman on his side in the course of a Junior House League match, had deprived Mr. Brett of a possible two points out of the total necessary to secure the Junior House Cricket Cup.

From Project Gutenberg