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PHASMIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Stick insects

Synonyms:

family Phasmatidae; family Phasmidae; Phasmatidae; Phasmidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Phasmidae"):

stick insect; walking stick; walkingstick (any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies)

genus Diapheromera (a genus of Phasmidae)

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

order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)

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