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    CLASS HEXAPODA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal speciesplay

    Synonyms:

    class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("class Hexapoda" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "class Hexapoda"):

    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 ("class Hexapoda" is a member of...):

    Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)

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