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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 insects
Familiarity information: PHASMID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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