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单词 balm-cricket
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balm-cricketn.

Etymology: earlier baum-cricket , apparently a mistranslation of German baum-grille, ‘tree-cricket,’ by confusion with Middle English baum balm n.1 (Taken by Tennyson, he tells us, from Dalzel.)Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbalm-ˌcricket.
The cicada.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae
cicada?a1475
cigala1484
bow-krickel1658
locust1709
harvest-fly1753
spit-insect1755
tettix1775
balm-cricket1783
cicala1821
tree-hopper1836
cicad1855
knife-grinder1859
scissors-grinder1875
jar-fly1880
squeaker1887
New Forest cicada1978
1783 Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 25) Cicada, the Baum-cricket, a genus of four-winged insects.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Cicada, a sauterelle, or, according to others, a balm-cricket.
1797 Dalzel Analec. Maj. II. 187 Τέττιξ, Cicada veterum..Cicada orni Linn., Angl. the Balm Cricket.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Dirge vii, in Poems 107 The balmcricket carols clear In the green that folds thy grave.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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