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Phasmatidae

noun

stick insects

• Syn: ↑Phasmidae, ↑family Phasmidae, ↑family Phasmatidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Phasmida, ↑order Phasmida, ↑Phasmatodea, ↑order Phasmatodea

• Member Meronyms: ↑walking stick, ↑walkingstick, ↑stick insect, ↑genus Diapheromera

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\\fazˈmad.əˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Phasmat-, Phasma, type genus + -idae

: a family of cursorial insects (suborder Phasmatodea) with long antennae and the abdomen simple and cylindrical or expanded laterally through part of its length

Useful english dictionary. 2012.