NOUN | animal | crane fly, daddy longlegs | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite |
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Meaning | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. | |
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Synonym | daddy longlegs | |
Member of | Tipulidae, family Tipulidae | crane flies |
Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | 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 |
Spanish | típula | |
Catalan | típula |
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