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Jerusalem cricket
Jerusalem cricketn. Any of several nocturnal burrowing orthopteran insects of the subfamily Stenopelmatinae, especially Stenopelmatus fuscus of western North America, having a large round head and a striped abdomen. Also called potato bug.
[Perhaps from Jerusalem!, exclamation uttered upon encountering the large insect, or from partial translation during contact between the Navajo and Christian missionaries of Navajo ch'osh bich'ich l̷ichii', red-skull bug (in reference to the skull-like appearance of its head and the hill of Golgotha outside Jerusalem, whose name is said in the Bible (Mark 15:22) to mean place of a skull) .]Jeru′salem crick′et
n. a reddish brown cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus, of arid areas in W North America, with a banded abdomen and short spiny legs. [1945–50, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | Jerusalem cricket - large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United Statessand cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscuslong-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid - grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the malegenus Stenopelmatus, Stenopelmatus - sand crickets |
Jerusalem cricket
Synonyms for Jerusalem cricketnoun large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United StatesSynonyms- sand cricket
- Stenopelmatus fuscus
Related Words- long-horned grasshopper
- tettigoniid
- genus Stenopelmatus
- Stenopelmatus
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