FAMILY PYRRHOCORIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pyrrhocoridae mean? 

• FAMILY PYRRHOCORIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PYRRHOCORIDAE has 1 sense:

1. firebugs

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PYRRHOCORIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PYRRHOCORIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Firebugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pyrrhocoridae; Pyrrhocoridae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Pyrrhocoridae"):

firebug (a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain)

Dysdercus; genus Dysdercus (a genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it)

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

Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)