Definition of Tree cricket

1. Noun. Pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation.

Generic synonyms: Cricket
Group relationships: Genus Oecanthus, Oecanthus
Specialized synonyms: Oecanthus Fultoni, Snowy Tree Cricket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tree Cricket

tree-hugger
tree-hugging
tree-line
tree-living
tree-ring
tree-rings
tree-shaped
tree-shrew
tree-worship
tree bark
tree branch
tree celandine
tree clubmoss
tree cotton
tree creeper
tree cricket (current term)
tree diagram
tree farm
tree farmer
tree farming
tree farms
tree frog
tree frogs
tree fuchsia
tree heath
tree house
tree houses
tree hugger
tree huggers

Literary usage of Tree 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)
"232. — Song of the field cricket. (After Scudder.) Perhaps the commonest night song, however, is that of the snowy tree cricket ..."

2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The snowy tree-cricket, like its relatives, spends much time at its toilet. ... But when cleaning its front feet, the snowy tree-cricket puts on airs; ..."

3. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1916)
"The first of these is the snowy tree-cricket, which deposits its eggs singly "at the ... The four-spotted tree-cricket, though sometimes found in raspberry ..."

4. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"No satisfactory method of controlling negro bugs on berries has yet been devised. THE TREE-CRICKET ..."

5. Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden by Mary Treat (1882)
"The Snowy Tree-Cricket, fig. 134, prefers the canes of the Raspberry for its ... EGGS OF and fruit, working at night when per- SNOWY TREE-CRICKET. fectly ..."

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