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adj
Relating to or denoting dipterans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An insect of the large order Diptera; a fly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteron
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insect
Narrower terms: gall midge, gallfly, gall gnat, fly, robber fly, bee killer, fruit fly, pomace fly, louse fly, hippoboscid, mosquito, gnat, fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid, crane fly, daddy longlegs
History
PIE word *dwóh1 Immediately from translingual Diptera + -an, for denoting taxonomic specification, as opposed to instances where "fly" is used informally. From Ancient Greek δίπτερος (dípteros, “two-winged”) + -an, from δι- (di-, “two, di-”) + πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”) + -ος (-os, “adjectival suffix”).
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