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Acrididae

noun

short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts

• Syn: ↑family Acrididae, ↑Locustidae, ↑family Locustidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Orthoptera, ↑order Orthoptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑short-horned grasshopper, ↑acridid, ↑Locusta, ↑genus Locusta, ↑Melanoplus, ↑genus Melanoplus

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\\əˈkridəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Acrida, type genus (from Greek akrid-, akris grasshopper) + -idae

: a family of orthopterous insects that includes the true locusts and the grasshoppers with short antennae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.