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KALOTERMITIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kalotermitidae mean?
• KALOTERMITIDAE (noun)
The noun KALOTERMITIDAE has 1 sense:
1. primitive termites of warm regions
Familiarity information: KALOTERMITIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive termites of warm regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Kalotermitidae; Kalotermitidae
Hypernyms ("Kalotermitidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Kalotermitidae"):
genus Kalotermes; Kalotermes (type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees)
Cryptotermes; genus Cryptotermes (genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes)
Holonyms ("Kalotermitidae" is a member of...):
Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)
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