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FAMILY PHASMATIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Phasmatidae mean?

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

1. stick insects

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

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY PHASMATIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Phasmatidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Stick insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phasmatidae; family Phasmidae; Phasmatidae; Phasmidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Phasmatidae"):

stick insect; walking stick; walkingstick (any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies)

genus Diapheromera (a genus of Phasmidae)

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

order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)

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