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PHASMID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phasmid mean? 

PHASMID (noun)
  The noun PHASMID has 1 sense:

1. large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insectsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PHASMID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

phasmid; phasmid insect

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phasmid"):

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

leaf insect; walking leaf (tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies)

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

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


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