MORMON CRICKET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States

Synonyms:

Anabrus simplex; mormon cricket

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mormon cricket" is a kind of...):

katydid (large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings)

Holonyms ("mormon cricket" is a member of...):

Anabrus; genus Anabrus (a genus of Tettigoniidae)

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