MECOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mecoptera mean? 

• MECOPTERA (noun)
  The noun MECOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip

  Familiarity information: MECOPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mecoptera; order Mecoptera

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)