单词 | jerusalem cricket |
释义 | Jerusalem cricket in American English US any of a family (Stenopelmatidae) of burrowing, wingless, long-horned crickets common in dry regions of W U.S. Jerusalem cricket in American Englishnoun a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S Also called: sand cricket Word origin [1945–50, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: beeper, ergative, individual medley, on-line, shootout |
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