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SATURNIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Saturnia mean?
• SATURNIA (noun)
The noun SATURNIA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth
Familiarity information: SATURNIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Saturnia; Saturnia
Hypernyms ("Saturnia" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Saturnia"):
emperor; emperor moth; Saturnia pavonia (large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings)
Holonyms ("Saturnia" is a member of...):
family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)
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