DICTYOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dictyoptera mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICTYOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Dictyoptera"):

dictyopterous insect (cockroaches and mantids)

Blattaria; Blattodea; suborder Blattaria; suborder Blattodea (cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order)

Manteodea; suborder Manteodea (mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera)

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

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