Mormon cricket

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large dark wingless katydid, Anabrus simplex, that resembles a cricket and is found in the arid parts of the western U.S. where it is occasionally an abundant pest of crops.
    — In the figure 55 is shown a “wingless cricket,” of the subfamily Decticinæ of authors. This group contains many very queer looking creatures, and also some that occasionally increase in such numbers as to become pests. Our large “Mormon cricket,” the one shown in the illustration, is an example of the latter kind.

词形变化

Mormon crickets plural

词源

Of Mormon + cricket, attested from the late 19th century. Associated with the Mormon settlers due to the miracle of the gulls.
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