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Definition of Sand cricket

1. Noun. Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Cricket

Literary usage of Sand cricket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... laid out Windsor Park and Virginia Water. Consult Sandby, Thomas and Paul Sandby (1892). SAND-CRICKET. One of the long-horned grasshoppers of the family ..."

2. Oregon and California in 1848 by Jessy Quinn Thornton (1864)
"species of insect here in great numbers which was LOW to us, and which is known among the emigrants as the sand-cricket, from the circumstance of their ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... the "sand-cricket," a chromatic "clement x" appears in synapsis in the spermatocytes attached to an end of the ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... laid out Windsor Park and Virginia Water. Consult Sandby, Thomas and Paul Sandby (1892). SAND-CRICKET. One of the long-horned grasshoppers of the family ..."

5. Oregon and California in 1848 by Jessy Quinn Thornton (1864)
"species of insect here in great numbers which was LOW to us, and which is known among the emigrants as the sand-cricket, from the circumstance of their ..."

6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... the "sand-cricket," a chromatic "clement x" appears in synapsis in the spermatocytes attached to an end of the ..."

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