MANTOPHASMATODEA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region

Synonyms:

Mantophasmatodea; order mantophasmatodea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Mantophasmatodea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Holonyms ("Mantophasmatodea" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

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