FAMILY PHASMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Phasmidae mean? 

• FAMILY PHASMIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PHASMIDAE has 1 sense:

1. stick insects

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PHASMIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PHASMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stick insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phasmatidae; family Phasmidae; Phasmatidae; Phasmidae

Hypernyms ("family Phasmidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Phasmidae"):

stick insect; walking stick; walkingstick (any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies)

genus Diapheromera (a genus of Phasmidae)

Holonyms ("family Phasmidae" is a member of...):

order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)