| 单词 | hearth cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmashearth cricket hearth cricket n. the house cricket, Acheta domestica. ΚΠ 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 256 Cats catch hearth-crickets, and..devour them. 1845 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 27 Dec. [Referring to Dickens' story ‘The Cricket and the Hearth’] The harmonious conflict between the Kettle and the Hearth Cricket still proceeds—we are obliged to abridge, yet one bit more. 1919 42nd Ann. Rep. Connecticut Agric. Exper. Station 315 In Europe and undoubtedly also in this country the hearth cricket is found in houses in all sizes from the very young to the full-grown insects. 2004 Times (Nexis) 24 July (Weekend Review section) 28 We're planning to have some live hearth crickets on show. We toyed with having cockroaches, but in the end thought not. < as lemmas |
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