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GRYLLIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Crickets

Synonyms:

family Gryllidae; Gryllidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Gryllidae"):

cricket (leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together)

Acheta; genus Acheta (common house and field crickets)

genus Oecanthus; Oecanthus (tree crickets)

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

order Orthoptera; Orthoptera (grasshoppers and locusts; crickets)

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