NOUN | animal | Mecoptera, order Mecoptera | an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip |
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Meaning | An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip. | |
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Synonym | order Mecoptera | |
Member of | Insecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda | insects |
Members | Bittacidae, family Bittacidae | A family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera |
Panorpidae, family Panorpidae | A family of insects of the order Mecoptera | |
mecopteran | Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | |
Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
Catalan | Mecoptera | |
Adjectives | mecopterous | of or relating to mecopterans |
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