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FAMILY KALOTERMITIDAE

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Meaning:

Primitive termites of warm regions

Synonyms:

family Kalotermitidae; Kalotermitidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Kalotermitidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Kalotermitidae"):

genus Kalotermes; Kalotermes (type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees)

Cryptotermes; genus Cryptotermes (genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes)

Holonyms ("family Kalotermitidae" is a member of...):

Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)

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