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ACHETA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Acheta mean?
• ACHETA (noun)
The noun ACHETA has 1 sense:
1. common house and field crickets
Familiarity information: ACHETA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common house and field crickets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Acheta; genus Acheta
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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