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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 | ||
| Synonyms | dipteran, 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 holonym | balancer, halter, haltere | ||
| Member meronym | Diptera, order Diptera | ||
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