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mole cricket

mole cricket noun: any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.

mole cricket: any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on...
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Noun

mole cricket (plural mole crickets)

  1. Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.
    • Spain is full of mole-crickets, shrill little underground insects whose goggle eyes you may sometimes see peering sleeplessly out of their burrows, and whose buzz is so energetic that their whole bodies vibrate down there like the radiators of very old motor-cars.1964, Jan Morris, “Wild Spain”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    fen cricket

mole cricket meaning in Tamil, Assamese, Tagalog and Arabic

mole cricket in Tamil

insect of Gryllotalpidae
பிள்ளைப்பூச்சி piḷḷaippūcci

mole cricket in Assamese

insect of Gryllotalpidae
কুমটি kumoti

mole cricket in Tagalog

insect of Gryllotalpidae
kamamarung

mole cricket in Arabic

insect of Gryllotalpidae
مَالُوش mālūš, حَالُوش ḥālūš, حَفَّار ḥaffār, حَرَّاثَة ḥarrāṯa
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mole cricket in Vietnamese
dế trũi, dế nhũi, dế dũi, dế chũi

Synonyms of mole cricket

Forms of mole cricket

pluralmole crickets

Words formed from mole cricket

Questions about mole cricket

What does mole cricket mean?
Mole cricket means any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.
What is mole cricket in Tamil?
Mole cricket in Tamil is பிள்ளைப்பூச்சி (piḷḷaippūcci). See Mole cricket meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mole cricket?
Mole cricket is a noun.
What is the plural of mole cricket?
The plural of mole cricket is mole crickets.

Words near mole cricket in the dictionary

  1. mole bean
  2. mole beans
  3. mole crab
  4. mole crabs
  5. Mole Creek
  6. mole cricket
  7. mole cricket wasp
  8. mole crickets
  9. mole fraction
  10. mole fractions
  11. mole hill

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