class hexapoda
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1. insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | class, |
definition | : | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group) |
member holonym | : | mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea, |
definition | : | an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | mecoptera, order mecoptera, |
definition | : | an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | collembola, order collembola, |
definition | : | minute wingless arthropods: springtails (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order protura, protura, |
definition | : | minute wingless arthropods: telsontails (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | coleoptera, order coleoptera, |
definition | : | beetles (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | embiodea, embioptera, order embiodea, order embioptera, |
definition | : | web spinners (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | anoplura, order anoplura, |
definition | : | sucking lice (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | mallophaga, order mallophaga, |
definition | : | biting lice (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order siphonaptera, siphonaptera, |
definition | : | fleas (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | diptera, order diptera, |
definition | : | a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | hymenoptera, order hymenoptera, |
definition | : | an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | isoptera, order isoptera, |
definition | : | order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order orthoptera, orthoptera, |
definition | : | grasshoppers and locusts; crickets (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order phasmatodea, order phasmida, phasmatodea, phasmida, |
definition | : | in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | exopterygota, hemimetabola, subclass exopterygota, |
definition | : | subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | dictyoptera, order dictyoptera, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | hemiptera, order hemiptera, |
definition | : | plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | corrodentia, order corrodentia, order psocoptera, psocoptera, |
definition | : | an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | ephemerida, ephemeroptera, order ephemerida, order ephemeroptera, |
definition | : | mayflies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order plecoptera, plecoptera, |
definition | : | stoneflies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | neuroptera, order neuroptera, |
definition | : | an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | odonata, order odonata, |
definition | : | dragonflies and damselflies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order trichoptera, trichoptera, |
definition | : | an order of insects consisting of caddis flies (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order thysanura, thysanura, |
definition | : | firebrats; silverfish; machilids (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | order thysanoptera, thysanoptera, |
definition | : | thrips (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | dermaptera, order dermaptera, |
definition | : | earwigs and a few related forms (noun.animal) |
member holonym | : | lepidoptera, order lepidoptera, |
definition | : | moths and butterflies (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | arthropoda, phylum arthropoda, |
definition | : | jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes (noun.animal) |
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