BLATTARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blattaria mean? 

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

1. cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLATTARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Blattaria; Blattodea; suborder Blattaria; suborder Blattodea

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Blattaria"):

cockroach; roach (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)

Blattidae; family Blattidae (domestic cockroaches)

Cryptocercidae; family Cryptocercidae (a family of Blattodea)

Holonyms ("Blattaria" 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)