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redleg cricket

redleg cricket

8.4
A small insect with bright red legs that chirps in gardens
  • noun
translation icon : grillo de patas rojas
  • A distinctive feature of the redleg cricket is its bright red legs.

Examples

  • Gardeners sometimes find redleg crickets hiding beneath flower pots.

  • The redleg cricket is often heard chirping at dusk in rural areas.

  • I spotted a redleg cricket in my garden yesterday.

  • The redleg crickets chirped loudly at night.

  • A distinctive feature of the redleg cricket is its bright red legs.

  • Gardeners sometimes find redleg crickets hiding beneath flower pots.

  • I spotted a redleg cricket in my garden yesterday.

Surface Forms

redleg cricket singular
redleg crickets plural

Morphology

redleg + cricket

The compound is transparently built from descriptive parts: 'redleg' can be parsed as 'red' + 'leg', so 'redleg cricket' denotes a cricket with red legs. A B1 learner who knows 'red', 'leg', and 'cricket' can readily infer this descriptive species name, and such feature-based animal naming is cross-linguistically common.

Etymology

Redleg cricket comes from the insect's bright red legs, a clear part you can see. That's why the name now means 'a cricket with red legs'.