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house cricket

noun

  1. a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.


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Origin of house cricket1

First recorded in 1765–75
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A third, the house cricket, could follow soon.

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Consider the common house cricket, Acheta domesticus.

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Country house cricket was popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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First, the researchers recorded vibrations of male spiders venturing onto females’ webs as well as the vibrations made when a house fly or house cricket got trapped by the sticky silk.

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All hope of further intimacy between this antagonistic pair ended during the following summer term, when to Philip's unutterable amazement, Mr. Brett declined to speak to him for the space of three days, because Philip, by inadvertently running out the most promising batsman on his side in the course of a Junior House League match, had deprived Mr. Brett of a possible two points out of the total necessary to secure the Junior House Cricket Cup.

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