Noun:

ஒருவிதப் பந்தாட்டம், சுவர்க் கோழி, சிள் வண்டு, கிரிக்கெட்,

crickets's Usage Examples:

Flies, ants, mosquitoes, scorpions, centipedes and crickets abound.

"larly abundant; crickets, beetles, locusts, walking-stick insects, mayflies and bugs are found, but there were neither flies, moths, butterflies nor bees, which is no more than we should expect from the conditions of plant life.

Insect life is represented by plant-bugs, locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, dragon-flies, butterflies, numerous varieties of moths, bees and mosquitoes.

In the nearly-related crickets and longhorned grasshoppers (Locustidae) the ears are situated in the shins of the fore-legs (see fig.

"Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.

Species of Sphex, studied by Fabre, provisioned their brood-chambers with crickets.

chirrup of crickets, Lee brings dish after dish to the table.

The waters of City Creek were at first diverted and a canal was built; and the results were encouraging, though in the summer of 1848 crops were destroyed by a swarm of black crickets; but in turn this pest was devoured by sea-gulls, and the phrase " gulls and crickets " has become one of peculiar historic significance in Utah.

The night air smelled of honeysuckle and pulsed with the sound of crickets.

From the moment the crickets chirp in on the sublime " Summer's caldron ", the tone is set for a uplifting album.

) and the Gryllidae or crickets (q.

Cave crickets (Hadenoecus subterraneus) abound.

Synonyms:

family Gryllidae, Acheta domestica, Gryllidae, mole cricket, field cricket, orthopteran, orthopteron, European house cricket, orthopterous insect, Acheta assimilis, tree cricket,

Antonyms:

inaction, stay in place, refrain, immovability, tightness,