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TENTHREDINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tenthredinidae mean? 

TENTHREDINIDAE (noun)
  The noun TENTHREDINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. sawfliesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TENTHREDINIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sawflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Tenthredinidae; Tenthredinidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Tenthredinidae"):

sawfly (insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant)

Fenusa; genus-Fenusa (birch leaf miner)

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

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)


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