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    GENUS SATURNIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor mothplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Saturnia; Saturnia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("genus Saturnia" is a kind of...):

    arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Saturnia"):

    emperor; emperor moth; Saturnia pavonia (large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings)

    Holonyms ("genus Saturnia" is a member of...):

    family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)

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