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Jerusalem cricket

noun

Definition of Jerusalem cricket

: a large-headed burrowing nocturnal orthopteran insect (Stenopelmatus fuscus) of the southwestern U.S.

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Jerusalem cricket

First Known Use of Jerusalem cricket

1947, in the meaning defined above

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