SATURNIA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth

Synonyms:

genus Saturnia; Saturnia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)