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mole crickets

mole crickets is the plural of mole cricket.

Meaning of mole cricket

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

Questions about mole crickets

What is mole crickets the plural of?
Mole crickets is the plural of mole cricket.

Words near mole crickets in the dictionary

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

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