mormon cricket

Definitions of mormon cricket
  1. noun
    large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
    synonyms: Anabrus simplex
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    katydid
    large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
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