ˌgrilō(ˌ)blaˈtōdēə noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Grylloblatta, a genus of insects (from gryllo- — from Latin gryllus cricket — + Latin blatta cockroach) + -odea
: a small extremely primitive suborder of Orthoptera often considered a separate order and comprising a few soft-bodied unpigmented wingless insects with long cerci and antennae and commonly no eyes or ocelli that occur near snow in mountains of western No. America and Japan and constitute a single family