dune cricket

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any orthopteran in the family Schizodactylidae, not too distantly related to the true crickets in the family Gryllidae, known for inhabiting sandy areas.
    — The Thar desert in Rajasthan is home to two of the seven known dune cricket species.

词形变化

dune crickets plural

词源

From dune (“a hill of sand, especially in a desert”) + cricket (“kind of insect”), named for the sandy habitats which they live in.
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