Dipteran

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dipterous insect.
  • adj. Of or belonging to the order Diptera; dipterous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of very many flies, of the order Diptera, that have two wings
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An insect of the order Diptera.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as dipterous.
  • n. A dipterous insect; a member of the order Diptera. Also dipteron.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    insect   
    Hyponym
    sciarid    gallfly    mosquito    pomace fly    crane fly    gnat    daddy longlegs    robber fly    fungus gnat    sciara   
     
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