ANOPLURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anoplura mean? 

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

1. sucking lice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOPLURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sucking lice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anoplura; order Anoplura

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Anoplura"):

louse; sucking louse (wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals)

family Pediculidae; Pediculidae (true lice: human lice and related forms)

family Phthiriidae; Phthiriidae (crab lice)

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

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)