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    FAMILY PHASMIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Stick insectsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Phasmatidae; family Phasmidae; Phasmatidae; Phasmidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "family Phasmidae"):

    stick insect; walking stick; walkingstick (any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies)

    genus Diapheromera (a genus of Phasmidae)

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

    order Phasmatodea; order Phasmida; Phasmatodea; Phasmida (in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects)

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