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MECOPTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
Synonyms:
Mecoptera; order Mecoptera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mecoptera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Mecoptera"):
mecopteran (any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera)
family Panorpidae; Panorpidae (a family of insects of the order Mecoptera)
Bittacidae; family Bittacidae (a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera)
Holonyms ("Mecoptera" is a member of...):
class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)
Derivation:
mecopterous (of or relating to mecopterans)