| 单词 | mormon cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMormon cricket Mormon cricket n. a bush cricket, Anabrus simplex, of the western United States, which is destructive to cereal crops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Tettigoniidae > member of > anabrus simplex (Mormon cricket) Mormon cricket1896 1896 J. B. Smith Econ. Entomol. iv. 97 At the base of the Rocky Mountains, extending up into the foothills..the ‘Mormon cricket’, Anabrus simplex, occasionally multiplies so greatly that it migrates to the plains below, destroying everything in its path. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 1 May 13/1 The devastating ‘mormon’ crickets, which came into prominence in 1848, when they threatened the first colonists in Utah with starvation... Black creatures two inches long when full grown, they eat everything in sight. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 109/1 Grasshoppers and big mormon crickets were driven into trenches from which they could be gathered in baskets. 1986 New Yorker 3 Mar. 66/3 Over the decades..he completely circumambulated the skyline of Jackson Hole, camping where darkness came upon him, casting grasshoppers or Mormon crickets to catch his dinner. < as lemmas |
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