dictyopterous insect

English Thesaurus

1. cockroaches and mantids (noun.animal)

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

hyponym	:	cockroach, roach,
definition	:	any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mantid, mantis,
definition	:	predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	dictyoptera, order dictyoptera,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)