ORDER PLECOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Plecoptera mean? 

• ORDER PLECOPTERA (noun)
  The noun ORDER PLECOPTERA has 1 sense:

1. stoneflies

  Familiarity information: ORDER PLECOPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER PLECOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stoneflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Plecoptera; Plecoptera

Hypernyms ("order Plecoptera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Plecoptera"):

plecopteran; stone fly; stonefly (primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones)

Holonyms ("order Plecoptera" is a member of...):

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