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sand cricket

DEFINITIONS OF: sand cricket

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n large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

Synonyms:
Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus
Type of:
long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
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