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FAMILY PANORPIDAE

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Meaning:

A family of insects of the order Mecoptera

Synonyms:

family Panorpidae; Panorpidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Meronyms (members of "family Panorpidae"):

scorpion fly (any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous)

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

Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)

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