DICTYOPTEROUS INSECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dictyopterous insect mean? 

• DICTYOPTEROUS INSECT (noun)
  The noun DICTYOPTEROUS INSECT has 1 sense:

1. cockroaches and mantids

  Familiarity information: DICTYOPTEROUS INSECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICTYOPTEROUS INSECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cockroaches and mantids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dictyopterous insect" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dictyopterous insect"):

cockroach; roach (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)

mantid; mantis (predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer)

Holonyms ("dictyopterous insect" is a member of...):

Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera (in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera)