order Diptera
— Noun
– English
~ a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
order Chiroptera
— Noun
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~ an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)
order Hemiptera
— Noun
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~ plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
order Bennettitales
— Noun
– English
~ fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous
order Decapoda
— Noun
– English
~ squids and cuttlefishes