mole cricket

English

European mole cricket

Noun

mole cricket (plural mole crickets)

1. Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.

   Synonym: (UK dialect) fen cricket

Derived terms

• African mole cricket (Gryllotalpa africana)
• European mole cricket
• mole cricket hunter
• mole cricket wasp

 

Translations

insect of Gryllotalpidae

• Assamese: কুমটি (kumoti)
• Catalan: cadell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螻蛄／蝼蛄 (zh) (lóugū)

• Czech: krtonožka f
• Dutch: veenmol (nl) m
• Finnish: maamyyräsirkka (fi)
• French: courtilière (fr) f
• Galician: toupa grilo f, grilo da terra m, relo (gl) m
• Georgian: მახრა (maxra), ბოსტანა (bosṭana)
• German: Maulwurfsgrille f
• Hebrew: ערצב (he) m (artsáv)
• Irish: caoch-chriogar m
• Japanese: 螻蛄 (ja) (kera), ケラ (ja) (kera)
• Kazakh: бұзаубас (būzaubas)
• Korean: 땅강아지 (ko) (ttanggang'aji)
• Navajo: łeeyiʼ nahakʼízii
• Nogai: бузавбас (buzavbas)
• Norman: scorpion m
• Polish: turkuć m
• Portuguese: grilo-toupeira m, paquinha f (Brazil), ralo (pt) m (Portugal), cachorrinho-da-terra m (Brazil)
• Romanian: coropișniță (ro) f
• Russian: медве́дка (ru) f (medvédka), медвёдка (ru) f (medvjódka) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ровац m

  Roman: rovac (sh) m

• Spanish: grillo topo (es) m
• Swedish: mullvadssyrsa (sv)
• Tagalog: kamamarung
• Turkmen: buzaw (tk), mürzebaşy
• Ukrainian: вовчо́к m (vovčók), ведме́дка f (vedmédka), земле́дух m (zemlédux), капустя́нка f (kapustjánka)
• Vietnamese: dế trũi, dế nhũi, dế dũi, dế chũi
• Zhuang: ndungjndingq