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gryl·lus \ˈgriləs\ noun 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 1. 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 2. plural gryl·li \-iˌlī\ [Latin] : a comic combination of animals or of animal and human forms in Greco-Roman glyptic art especially in intaglios |