SAND CRICKET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

Synonyms:

Jerusalem cricket; sand cricket; Stenopelmatus fuscus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sand cricket" is a kind of...):

long-horned grasshopper; tettigoniid (grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male)

Holonyms ("sand cricket" is a member of...):

genus Stenopelmatus; Stenopelmatus (sand crickets)

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