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)
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)