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Embiodea

noun

web spinners

• Syn: ↑Embioptera, ↑order Embioptera, ↑order Embiodea

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑web spinner

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\\ˌembēˈōdēə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Embia + -odea

: a small order of slender elongated chiefly tropical insects with large head and 10-segmented abdomen having males that are usually winged and both nymphs and adults that live in silken webs which they spin with glands in the fore tarsi — see web spinner

Useful english dictionary. 2012.