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MANTIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mantises

Synonyms:

family Manteidae; family Mantidae; Manteidae; Mantidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Mantidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Mantidae"):

genus Mantis (type genus of the Mantidae: mantises)

Holonyms ("Mantidae" is a member of...):

Manteodea; suborder Manteodea (mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera)

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