two-winged insects
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1. 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 (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | insect, |
definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | fly, |
definition | : | two-winged insects characterized by active flight (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | bee killer, robber fly, |
definition | : | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | fruit fly, pomace fly, |
definition | : | any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | hippoboscid, louse fly, |
definition | : | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | mosquito, |
definition | : | two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | gnat, |
definition | : | any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | fungus gnat, |
definition | : | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid, |
definition | : | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | crane fly, daddy longlegs, |
definition | : | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite (noun.animal) |
part holonym | : | balancer, halter, haltere, |
definition | : | either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | diptera, order diptera, |
definition | : | a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies (noun.animal) |
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