EMBIOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Embioptera mean? 

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

1. web spinners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBIOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Web spinners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Embiodea; Embioptera; order Embiodea; order Embioptera

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Embioptera"):

web spinner (any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin)

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

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