cricket : Idioms & Phrases

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Balm cricket

  • (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson.
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cricket ball

  • noun the ball used in playing cricket
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cricket bat

  • noun the club used in playing cricket
    bat.
    • a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting
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Cricket bird

  • a small European bird (Silvia locustella); called also grasshopper warbler.
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cricket equipment

  • noun sports equipment used in playing cricket
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Cricket frog

  • noun either of two frogs with a clicking call
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  • a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); so called from its chirping.
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cricket match

  • noun a match between two cricket teams
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cricket-bat willow

  • noun Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches
    Salix alba caerulea.
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eastern cricket frog

  • noun a cricket frog of eastern United States
    Acris gryllus.
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european house cricket

  • noun lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
    Acheta domestica.
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Fan cricket

  • (Zoöl.), a mole cricket.
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fen cricket

Fen" crick`et
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  1. (Zoöl.) The mole cricket. Prov. Eng.
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Field cricket

  • noun common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings
    Acheta assimilis.
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  • (Zoöl.), a large European cricket (Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes.
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House cricket

  • (Zoöl.), a European cricket (Gryllus domesticus), which frequently lives in houses, between the bricks of chimneys and fireplaces. It is noted for the loud chirping or stridulation of the males.
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jerusalem cricket

  • noun large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
    Stenopelmatus fuscus; Jerusalem cricket.
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Mole cricket

  • noun digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots
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  • (Zoöl.), an orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It is said to do damage by injuring the roots of plants. The common European species (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), and the American (G. borealis), are the best known.
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mormon cricket

  • noun large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
    Anabrus simplex.
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northern cricket frog

  • noun a cricket frog of eastern and central United States
    Acris crepitans.
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Sand cricket

  • noun large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
    Stenopelmatus fuscus; Jerusalem cricket.
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States.
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snowy tree cricket

  • noun pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America
    Oecanthus fultoni.
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Tree cricket

  • noun pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation
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  • (Zoöl.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket (Ecanthus niv&oe;us) which is noted for its loud stridulation; called also white cricket.
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White cricket

  • (Zoöl.), the tree cricket.
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Wood cricket

  • (Zoöl.), a small European cricket (Nemobius sylvestris).
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