| NOUN | animal | mecopteran | any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera |
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| Meaning | Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera. | |
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| Member of | Mecoptera, order Mecoptera | An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip |
| Narrower | hanging fly | Any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae |
| scorpion fly | Any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae | |
| Broader | insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
| Adjectives | mecopterous | of or relating to mecopterans |
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