[earlier baum-cricket, app. a mistranslation of G. baum-grille, ‘tree-cricket,’ by confusion with ME. baum BALM. (Taken by Tennyson, he tells us, from Dalzel.)] The cicada.
1783. Bailey, Cicada, the Baum-cricket, a genus of four-winged insects.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., II. Cicada, a sauterelle, or, according to others, a balm-cricket.
1797. Dalzel, Analec. Maj., II. 187 (note on Theocr. Idyll, I. 148). Τέττιξ, Cicada veterum … Cicada orni Linn., Angl. the Balm Cricket.
1833. Tennyson, Dirge, vii. The balm-cricket carols clear In the green that folds thy grave.
