gryllus

noun

gryl·lus

ˈgriləs

capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Gryllidae) of crickets once construed as including all known crickets but now restricted to certain typical Old World forms compare acheta

plural grylli

-iˌlī

[Latin] : a comic combination of animals or of animal and human forms in Greco-Roman glyptic art especially in intaglios

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, cricket, grasshopper, a kind of comic figure, from Greek gryllos Egyptian dance, performer of an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature