Noun: mormon cricket
- Large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
"Mormon crickets moved across the desert in dense bands";
- Anabrus simplex
- A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Latter-day Saint
- A prophet believed by Latter-day Saints to have compiled ancient records into the Book of Mormon, which was later translated by Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Mormon is believed to have abridged sacred histories onto golden plates"
- Of or relating to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Mormon leaders"; "the former Mormon practice of polygamy"
Derived forms: Mormons
Type of: Christian, katydid, prophet
Part of: Anabrus, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, genus Anabrus, Mormon Church, Mormons
Encyclopedia: Mormon cricket
Mormon, California