NEUROPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Neuroptera mean? 

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

1. an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROPTERA (noun)

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Meaning:

An order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Neuroptera; order Neuroptera

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Neuroptera"):

neuropteran; neuropteron; neuropterous insect (insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins)

family Myrmeleontidae; Myrmeleontidae (antlions)

Chrysopidae; family Chrysopidae (green lacewings)

family Hemerobiidae; Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings)

Megaloptera; suborder Megaloptera (in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies)

family Mantispidae; Mantispidae (mantispids)

family Sisyridae; Sisyridae (an arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies)

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

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