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Definition of Field cricket
1. Noun. Common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Cricket
Literary usage of Field cricket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"Song of the field cricket. (After Scudder.) Perhaps the commonest night song,
however, is that of the snowy tree cricket ..."
2. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"THE FIELD-CRICKET. ANOTHER insect of this family, the field-cricket ... The children
in France amuse themselves with hunting after the field-cricket; ..."
3. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835)
"... of the field cricket, difficult to catch, its Habits, its Sound—A singular
Species—History of the Mole Cricket, its Fore legs, its Chamber for its Eggs, ..."
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