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AUTOMERIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Automeris mean?
• AUTOMERIS (noun)
The noun AUTOMERIS has 1 sense:
1. io moth
Familiarity information: AUTOMERIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Io moth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Automeris; genus Automeris
Hypernyms ("Automeris" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Automeris"):
Automeris io; io moth (large yellow American moth having a large eyelike spot on each hind wing; the larvae have stinging spines)
Holonyms ("Automeris" is a member of...):
family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)
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