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Definition of Mole cricket
1. Noun. Digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots.
Definition of Mole cricket
1. Noun. Any of various large insects from the family ''Gryllotalpidae'' that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mole Cricket
Literary usage of Mole cricket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"Small forceps are also seen, and an oval mark on the "knee" is a sense-organ
sometimes regarded as an "ear." The mole cricket is nearly related to crickets ..."
2. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"THE MOLE-CRICKET. The insect called, from its similarity of habits to the ...
The structure of the mole-cricket's arms and hands {if we may call them so) is ..."
3. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"3F THE GRASSHOPPER, THE LOCUST, THE CICADA, THE CRICKET, AND THE MOLE-CRICKET.
BELONGING to the second order of insects, we find a tribe of little animals, ..."
4. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"THE mole cricket passed me, and •went back through the passage by •which we had just
... Then the mole cricket came into the room where she had left me, ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"On the Anatomy of the Mole-cricket. By J. Kidd, MD and FRS Reg. Prof, of Medicine
in the University of Oxford. Read February 3 and February 10, 1825. [Phil. ..."
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