noun
an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
• Syn: ↑Mecoptera
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mecopterous (for: ↑Mecoptera)
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda
• Member Meronyms: ↑mecopteran, ↑Panorpidae, ↑family Panorpidae, ↑Bittacidae, ↑family Bittacidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.