cricket

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: cricket

1	n	leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
2	n v	a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs play cricket

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: cricket

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; mole cricket
digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots; Acheta domestica, European house cricket
lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America; Acheta assimilis, field cricket
common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings; tree cricket
pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation; Oecanthus fultoni, snowy tree cricket
pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America

Type of:: orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect
any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts

Type of:: field game
an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions

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