Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of cursorial orthopterous insects, the cockroaches, Blattidœ or Blattina, elevated to the rank of an order.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
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Examples
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"X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects"
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More information: "X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects" Biology Letters Journal, April 2010 issue.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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More information: "X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects" Biology Letters Journal, April 2010 issue.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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More information: "X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects" Biology Letters Journal, April 2010 issue.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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More information: "X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects" Biology Letters Journal, April 2010 issue.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Water temperature relations primitive xylophagous cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Dictyoptera - Cryptocercidae)
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Adaptive features tarsi cockroaches (Insecta - Dictyoptera)
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Distribution of the Asian cockroach, Blattella asahinai (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae), in Dothan, Alabama. (
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Group dangles $50K for Jews who move to Ala. town 2008
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