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Definitions of crickets in various dictionaries:
noun - leaping insect
noun - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players
verb - play cricket
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| The finest singers among species of this insect are the tree type, not the house or field type |
| The field & house types of this chirping insect are raised & sold as fish bait |
| To feed your gecko, PETCO offers a "Case O'" these noisy insects |
| These insects "chirp" by rubbing their 2 front wings together |
| The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait |
| In Asia these insects are said to bring good luck; owners sometimes tickle them with rabbit whiskers to make them "sing" |
| An association in Beijing sponsors fighting tournaments for the field type of these chirping insects |
| The Entomology Club at Iowa State Univ. put these chirping insects into Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies |
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| an insect related to the grasshoppers but with shorter legs. The male produces a characteristic musical chirping sound. |
| Plural form of cricket. |
| Absolute silence no communication. Derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet. May be used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases. |
| An insect related to the grasshoppers but with shorter legs. The male produces a characteristic musical chirping sound. |
| An open-air game played on a large grass field with ball, bats, and two wickets, between teams of eleven players, the object of the game being to score more runs than the opposition. |
| A low wooden stool a footstool. |
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Crickets (also known as "true crickets"), of the family Gryllidae, are insects related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. The Gryllidae have mainly cylindrical bodies, round heads, and long antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust pronotum. The abdomen ends in a pair of long cerci (spikes); females have a long, cylindrical ovipositor. The hind legs have enlarged femora (thighs), providing power for jumping. The front wings are adapted as tough, leathery elytra (wing covers), and some crickets chirp by rubbing parts of these together. The hind wings are membranous and folded when not in use for flight; many species, however, are flightless. The largest members of the family are the bull crickets, Brachytrupes, which are up to 5 cm (2 in) long. * More than 900 species of crickets are described; the Gryllidae are distributed all around the world except at latitudes 55° or higher, with the greatest diversity being in the tropics. They occur in varied habitats from g |