Dictyopterous insect (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cockroaches and mantids
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dictyopterous insect" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dictyopterous insect"):
cockroach; roach (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)
mantid; mantis (predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer)
Holonyms ("dictyopterous insect" is a member of...):
Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera (in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera)