HyperDic: family_hippoboscidae

English > 1 sense of the expression family Hippoboscidae:
NOUNanimalfamily Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidaewinged or wingless dipterans
English > family Hippoboscidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningwinged or wingless dipterans: louse flies.
SynonymHippoboscidae
Member ofDiptera, order DipteraA large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths
MembersHippobosca, genus Hippoboscatype genus of the Hippoboscidae
Melophagus, genus MelophagusAn arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked
louse fly, hippoboscidbloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
Broaderarthropod familyAny of the arthropods

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