Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: Dictyoptera, order Dictyoptera]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Dictyoptera
n 1: 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 [syn: Dictyoptera, order
Dictyoptera]