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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mecoptera is a noun meaning "an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip". It carries one recorded sense.
an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mecoptera come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.