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Mormon cricket

noun

  1. a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mormon cricket1

First recorded in 1895–1900; so named because found where the Mormons settled

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