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MECOPTERAN

Dictionary entry overview: What does mecopteran mean?

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

1. any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera

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

Dictionary entry details

• MECOPTERAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mecopteran"):

scorpion fly (any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous)

hanging fly (any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae)

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

Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)

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