1. Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
   "Sand crickets emerged at night to forage on the beach";
   - Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus

Derived forms: sand crickets

Type of: long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid

Part of: genus Stenopelmatus, Stenopelmatus

Encyclopedia: Sand cricket