| 单词 | house cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse cricket house cricket n. a light yellowish-brown cricket, Acheta domesticus (family Grillidae), commonly found (esp. in Europe) in association with human settlement. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllidae > member of (cricket) > acheta domestica house cricket1721 1721 Philos. Trans. Abridg'd 1700–20 (Royal Soc.) 5 iv. iii. 257 'Tis like a small fly, with an head like an House Cricket. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 349 The House-cricket, whose voice is so well known behind a country fire in a winter's evening. 1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 265 House-crickets are also good, to dib with, for chub. 1949 Times 16 Aug. 7/3 The crickets often heard on municipal rubbish dumps and suchlike places are also, I think, house crickets. 2004 Countryman Jan. 66/2 It certainly does take advantage of temporary, local food gluts, taking prey such as house crickets. < as lemmas |
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