HyperDic: dipterous_insect

English > 1 sense of the expression dipterous insect:
NOUNanimaldipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteroninsects 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
English > dipterous insect: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninginsects 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.
Synonymstwo-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron
Member ofDiptera, order DipteraA large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths
Partshalter, haltere, balancerEither of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects
Narrowercrane fly, daddy longlegslong-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite
flytwo-winged insects characterized by active flight
fruit fly, pomace flyAny of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits
fungus gnatmosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation
fungus gnat, sciara, sciaridminute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms / mushrooms and seedlings
gall midge, gallfly, gall gnatFragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
gnatAny of various small biting flies
louse fly, hippoboscidbloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
mosquitoTwo-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
robber fly, bee killerswift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing
Broaderinsectsmall air-breathing arthropod
Spanishdíptero, dipteron, dipteros
Catalandípter, dipteron

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