NOUN | animal | Asilidae, family Asilidae | robber flies |
---|
Meaning | robber flies. | |
---|---|---|
Synonym | family Asilidae | |
Member of | Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
Members | robber fly, bee killer | swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing |
Broader | arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |
Spanish | Asilidae, asílidos, familia Asilidae | |
Catalan | asílids |
©2001-25 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact