GENUS ACHETA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Acheta mean? 

• GENUS ACHETA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACHETA has 1 sense:

1. common house and field crickets

  Familiarity information: GENUS ACHETA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ACHETA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common house and field crickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acheta; genus Acheta

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

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Acheta" is a member of...):

family Gryllidae; Gryllidae (crickets)