English noun: two-winged insects |
1. | two-winged insects (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 |
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| Synonyms | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect |
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| Broader (hypernym) | insect |
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| 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 |
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| Part holonym | balancer, halter, haltere |
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| Member meronym | Diptera, order Diptera |
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