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Mormon crickets

Mormon crickets is the plural of Mormon cricket.

Meaning of Mormon cricket

Noun

Mormon cricket (plural Mormon crickets)

  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...1894, Lawrence Bruner, A Preliminary Introduction to the Study of Entomology, →OCLC, page 41

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Mormon crickets is the plural of Mormon cricket.

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