KALOTERMITIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kalotermitidae mean? 

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

1. primitive termites of warm regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KALOTERMITIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive termites of warm regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Kalotermitidae; Kalotermitidae

Hypernyms ("Kalotermitidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Kalotermitidae"):

genus Kalotermes; Kalotermes (type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees)

Cryptotermes; genus Cryptotermes (genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes)

Holonyms ("Kalotermitidae" is a member of...):

Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)