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Mormon cricket

noun

Definition of MORMON CRICKET

:  a large dark wingless migratory katydid (Anabrus simplex) that resembles a cricket and is found in the western United States where it is occasionally an abundant pest of crops and forage plants
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First Known Use of MORMON CRICKET

1896

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