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Jerusalem cricket
[ ji-roo-suh-luhm krik-it, -zuh- ]
noun
- a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper of the family Stenopelmatidae, especially Stenopelmatus fuscus, occurring chiefly in loose soil and sand.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Jerusalem cricket1
An Americanism first recorded in 1945–50
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