JERUSALEM CRICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jerusalem cricket mean? 

• JERUSALEM CRICKET (noun)
  The noun JERUSALEM CRICKET has 1 sense:

1. large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERUSALEM CRICKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus

Hypernyms ("Jerusalem 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 ("Jerusalem cricket" is a member of...):

genus Stenopelmatus; Stenopelmatus (sand crickets)