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English noun: dipterous insect

1. dipterous insect (animal) 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


Synonymsdipteran, dipteron, two-winged insects


Broader (hypernym)insect


Narrower (hyponym)bee killer, crane fly, daddy longlegs, fly, fruit fly, fungus gnat, fungus gnat, gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly, gnat, hippoboscid, louse fly, mosquito, pomace fly, robber fly, sciara, sciarid


Part holonymbalancer, halter, haltere


Member meronymDiptera, order Diptera









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