European house cricket
- noun
- /ˌjʊərəˈpiːən haʊs ˈkrɪkɪt/
- UK
:
grillo doméstico europeo
- The European house cricket is often heard chirping indoors during the summer months.
Examples
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Some people keep European house crickets as food for pet reptiles and amphibians.
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Scientists study the European house cricket to understand urban insect adaptation.
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The European house cricket chirps at night.
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Have you seen a European house cricket before?
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Some people keep European house crickets as food for pet reptiles and amphibians.
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Scientists study the European house cricket to understand urban insect adaptation.
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The European house cricket is often heard chirping indoors during the summer months.
Synonyms
A small brown insect that lives in houses and chirps
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly inferable from the parts: 'European' (origin), 'house' (dwelling/habitat) and 'cricket' (the insect), so it denotes a cricket species associated with houses from Europe. This follows a regular compositional pattern (origin + habitat + noun) that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
European house cricket comes from how people named the insect: a small cricket that came from Europe and was often found in a house, where its chirp was heard indoors. So the name means a little cricket 'from Europe' that lives commonly 'in houses'.
