FAMILY RAPHIDIIDAE

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Meaning:

A family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies

Synonyms:

family Raphidiidae; Raphidiidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Raphidiidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Raphidiidae"):

snakefly (predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax)

Holonyms ("family Raphidiidae" is a member of...):

Megaloptera; suborder Megaloptera (in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies)