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INSECTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
Synonyms:
class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Insecta" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Insecta"):
Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
Dermaptera; order Dermaptera (earwigs and a few related forms)
order Thysanoptera; Thysanoptera (thrips)
order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)
order Trichoptera; Trichoptera (an order of insects consisting of caddis flies)
Odonata; order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
Neuroptera; order Neuroptera (an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies)
order Plecoptera; Plecoptera (stoneflies)
Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
Corrodentia; order Corrodentia; order Psocoptera; Psocoptera (an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice)
Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))
Dictyoptera; order Dictyoptera (in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera)
Exopterygota; Hemimetabola; subclass Exopterygota (subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis)
order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)
order Orthoptera; Orthoptera (grasshoppers and locusts; crickets)
Isoptera; order Isoptera (order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota)
Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)
Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)
order Siphonaptera; Siphonaptera (fleas)
Mallophaga; order Mallophaga (biting lice)
Anoplura; order Anoplura (sucking lice)
Embiodea; Embioptera; order Embiodea; order Embioptera (web spinners)
Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)
order Protura; Protura (minute wingless arthropods: telsontails)
Collembola; order Collembola (minute wingless arthropods: springtails)
Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)
Mantophasmatodea; order mantophasmatodea (an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region)
Holonyms ("Insecta" is a member of...):
Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)
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