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ACHETA

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Common house and field crickets

Synonyms:

Acheta; genus Acheta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Acheta" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Acheta"):

Acheta domestica; European house cricket (lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America)

Acheta assimilis; field cricket (common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings)

Holonyms ("Acheta" is a member of...):

family Gryllidae; Gryllidae (crickets)

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