Home › Words › D › dictyopterandictyopterandictyopteran means any of the polyneopterous insects of the order Dictyoptera: the termites, cockroaches and mantids.EtymologyDictyoptera + -announAny of the polyneopterous insects of the order Dictyoptera: the termites, cockroaches and mantidsDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dictyopharid 69% match — Any fulgoroid insect in the family Dictyopharidae. vs dictyopteran →blattodean 65% match — Any insect in the order Blattodea, which includes cockroaches and, in more recent taxonomy, termites. vs dictyopteran →dipterid 65% match — Any fly of the order Diptera vs dictyopteran →polyneopteran 65% match — Any insect of the subdivision Polyneoptera. vs dictyopteran →dictynid 63% match — Any spider in the family Dictynidae. vs dictyopteran →archaeorthopteran 63% match — Any insect of the superorder Archaeorthoptera vs dictyopteran →dictynoid 62% match — Any member of the Dictynoidea, a group of araneomorph spiders that have been treated as a superfamily. vs dictyopteran →mantophasmatid 62% match — Any wingless insect of the family Mantophasmatidae vs dictyopteran →