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PLECOPTERA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stoneflies

Synonyms:

order Plecoptera; Plecoptera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Plecoptera"):

plecopteran; stone fly; stonefly (primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones)

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

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

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