GENUS AUTOMERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Automeris mean? 

• GENUS AUTOMERIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS AUTOMERIS has 1 sense:

1. io moth

  Familiarity information: GENUS AUTOMERIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AUTOMERIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Io moth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Automeris; genus Automeris

Hypernyms ("genus Automeris" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Automeris"):

Automeris io; io moth (large yellow American moth having a large eyelike spot on each hind wing; the larvae have stinging spines)

Holonyms ("genus Automeris" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)