phasmid insect

English Thesaurus

1. large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	insect,
definition	:	small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	stick insect, walking stick, walkingstick,
definition	:	any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	leaf insect, walking leaf,
definition	:	tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order phasmatodea, order phasmida, phasmatodea, phasmida,
definition	:	in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects (noun.animal)