MANTOPHASMATODEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mantophasmatodea mean? 

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

1. an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTOPHASMATODEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mantophasmatodea; order mantophasmatodea

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

animal order (the order of animals)

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

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