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Jerusalem cricket

noun

Definition of JERUSALEM CRICKET

:  a large-headed burrowing nocturnal orthopteran insect (Stenopelmatus fuscus) of the southwestern United States
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First Known Use of JERUSALEM CRICKET

1947

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