Definition of Plecoptera

1. Noun. Stoneflies.

Exact synonyms: Order Plecoptera
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Plecopteran, Stone Fly, Stonefly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plecoptera

Plavix
PlayStation
PlayStations
PlayStations 3
Play Station
Playboys
Playfair
Playlobium obtusangulum
Playmaster
Playmasters
Pleasance
Pleasant Island
Pleasure curve
Plecoptera
Plecotus
Plecotus townsendi
Plectania
Plectomycetes
Plectophera
Plectorrhiza
Plectranthus amboinicus
Plectrophenax
Plectrophenax nivalis
Pleiad
Pleiadean
Pleiadeans
Pleiades
Pleiads

Literary usage of Plecoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... THE STONE-FLIES (Order plecoptera.) This order is not a large one and contains only the single family Perlidae, of which thirteen genera are represented ..."

2. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"Order plecoptera (Ple-cop'te-ra). The Stone-flies. The members of this order have four membranous wings, •with comparatively few or with many cross-veins ..."

3. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"Order plecoptera. The ordinal term signifies '' plaited wing,'' and is used because the hind wings are longitudinally folded or plaited beneath the FIG. 34. ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"... with the exception of some of the plecoptera and the Dermaptera, the members of this order have not inherited much of the tendency toward the great ..."

5. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... THE STONE-FLIES (Order plecoptera.) This order is not a large one and contains only the single family Perlidae, of which thirteen genera are represented ..."

6. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"Order plecoptera (Ple-cop'te-ra). The Stone-flies. The members of this order have four membranous wings, •with comparatively few or with many cross-veins ..."

7. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"Order plecoptera. The ordinal term signifies '' plaited wing,'' and is used because the hind wings are longitudinally folded or plaited beneath the FIG. 34. ..."

8. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"... with the exception of some of the plecoptera and the Dermaptera, the members of this order have not inherited much of the tendency toward the great ..."

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