insect vs neuropteran

neuropteran vs insect

insect and neuropteran both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insect	Yes	No	No	No
neuropteran	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, neuropteran is a hyponym of insect; that is, neuropteran is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than insect:

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
neuropteran: insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, ephemeron, holometabola, metabola, defoliator, pollinator, gallfly, mecopteran, collembolan, springtail, proturan, telsontail, beetle, web spinner, louse, sucking louse, bird louse, biting louse, louse, flea, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, leaf-miner, leaf miner, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, worker, termite, white ant, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, dictyopterous insect, bug, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, homopteran, homopterous insect, psocopterous insect, ephemerid, ephemeropteran, plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, earwig, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, pupa, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	neuropteran (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Difference between insect and neuropteran

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