"ant cricket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ant crickets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ant cricket (plural ant crickets)
  1. Any of various small insects of the family Myrmecophilidae that live commensally with ants. Categories (lifeform): Crickets and grasshoppers

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