dictum
- n an authoritative declaration
- n an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
dictyophera
- n closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus
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