diptera
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1. 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)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, |
| definition | : | 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) |
| member holonym | : | cecidomyidae, family cecidomyidae, |
| definition | : | gall midges (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | muscoidea, superfamily muscoidea, |
| definition | : | two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family muscidae, muscidae, |
| definition | : | two-winged flies especially the housefly (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | fly, |
| definition | : | two-winged insects characterized by active flight (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family glossinidae, glossinidae, |
| definition | : | flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | calliphoridae, family calliphoridae, |
| definition | : | blowflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family tachinidae, tachinidae, |
| definition | : | parasites on other insects (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family gasterophilidae, gasterophilidae, |
| definition | : | horse botflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | cuterebridae, family cuterebridae, |
| definition | : | New World botflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family hypodermatidae, family oestridae, hypodermatidae, oestridae, |
| definition | : | warble flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family tabanidae, tabanidae, |
| definition | : | horseflies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | bombyliidae, family bombyliidae, |
| definition | : | bee flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | asilidae, family asilidae, |
| definition | : | robber flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family trephritidae, family trypetidae, trephritidae, trypetidae, |
| definition | : | fruit flies; some leaf miners (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | drosophilidae, family drosophilidae, |
| definition | : | fruit flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family hippoboscidae, hippoboscidae, |
| definition | : | winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus haematobia, haematobia, |
| definition | : | European genus of bloodsucking flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | nematocera, suborder nematocera, |
| definition | : | mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family simuliidae, simuliidae, |
| definition | : | blackflies and sand flies (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta, |
| definition | : | insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | dipterous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | dipterous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera (adj.pert) |
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