family saturniidae
English Thesaurus
1. important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | arthropod family, |
| definition | : | any of the arthropods (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | saturniid, saturniid moth, |
| definition | : | large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus saturnia, saturnia, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | eacles, genus eacles, |
| definition | : | imperial moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm, |
| definition | : | larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | actias, genus actias, |
| definition | : | luna moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus hyalophora, hyalophora, |
| definition | : | American silkworm moth (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus samia, samia, |
| definition | : | silkworm moths (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | automeris, genus automeris, |
| definition | : | io moth (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | antheraea, genus antheraea, |
| definition | : | large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | atticus, genus atticus, |
| definition | : | atlas moth (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | lepidoptera, order lepidoptera, |
| definition | : | moths and butterflies (noun.animal) |
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