Dictyoptera

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Dictyoptera
       n : 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 [syn: {order Dictyoptera}]