GRYLLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gryllidae mean? 

• GRYLLIDAE (noun)
  The noun GRYLLIDAE has 1 sense:

1. crickets

  Familiarity information: GRYLLIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRYLLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gryllidae; Gryllidae

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)