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cricket (s) (noun), crickets (pl)
The common name for a members of the Orthoptera, an order of insects: The Orthoptera consist of the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, having straight folded posterior wings, incomplete metamorphosis (change in animal form), and usually enlarged hind legs and stridulation organs which provide a shrill grating or chirping noise made by rubbing body parts together.
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(Greek: grasshopper, grasshoppers; locust, locusts; cricket, crickets)