| 单词 | field cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield cricket field cricket n. any cricket of open country, esp. one of the widespread subfamily Gryllinae (family Gryllidae); (now spec.) Gryllus campestris of European grassland; cf. house cricket n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 9. ΚΠ 1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles A iv Those field-Crickets..play the parrats so notably. 1682 tr. J. Goedaert Of Insects 114 I cut off the head of one of them; which after 2 dayes was wholy eaten by another Field Cricket. 1781 G. White Jrnl. 2 May (1970) xvi. 185 Field-crickets crink: this note is very summer-like, & chearful. 1864 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 44 They are light-brown with dark markings, not quite so large as the field-cricket (Acheta abbreviata Harris). 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 132 The common field cricket (Acheta assimilis), found in every vegetation type in the United States, reaches its climax in numbers on the prairie in autumn. 1995 New Scientist 10 June 6/1 In 1991, the field cricket (Gryllus campestris) survived at just two places in Sussex. < as lemmas |
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