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Jerusalem cricket

[ ji-roo-suh-luhm krik-it, -zuh- ]

noun

  1. a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper of the family Stenopelmatidae, especially Stenopelmatus fuscus, occurring chiefly in loose soil and sand.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jerusalem cricket1

An Americanism first recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

In the American south-west lives a small reddish-brown insect called the Jerusalem cricket.

We slowed near an abandoned farmhouse favored by pallid bats, which scoop the tarantulas and scorpions and Jerusalem crickets up off the ground and eat them, discarding the legs and tails.*

We slowed near an abandoned farmhouse favored by palate bats, which scoop the tarantulas and scorpions and Jerusalem crickets up off the ground and eat them, discarding the legs and tails.

For Kesteloot, who has a particular interest in insects, her backyard is now home to a menagerie that includes monarch butterflies, Jerusalem crickets, bumble bees and honeybees.

Jerusalem crickets," he exclaimed, wiping his mouth, "but that's good stuff.

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