what does Dictyoptera mean?
DICTYOPTERA as NOUN
- Meaning
- in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids)
- in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
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Hypernyms(s) Dictyoptera is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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