DIPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Diptera mean? 

• DIPTERA (noun)
  The noun DIPTERA has 1 sense:

1. a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies

  Familiarity information: DIPTERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Diptera; order Diptera

Hypernyms ("Diptera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Diptera"):

Cuterebridae; family Cuterebridae (New World botflies)

family Simuliidae; Simuliidae (blackflies and sand flies)

Nematocera; suborder Nematocera (mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies)

genus Haematobia; Haematobia (European genus of bloodsucking flies)

family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae (winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies)

Drosophilidae; family Drosophilidae (fruit flies)

family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae (fruit flies; some leaf miners)

Asilidae; family Asilidae (robber flies)

Bombyliidae; family Bombyliidae (bee flies)

family Tabanidae; Tabanidae (horseflies)

family Hypodermatidae; family Oestridae; Hypodermatidae; Oestridae (warble flies)

family Gasterophilidae; Gasterophilidae (horse botflies)

family Tachinidae; Tachinidae (parasites on other insects)

Calliphoridae; family Calliphoridae (blowflies)

family Glossinidae; Glossinidae (flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies)

fly (two-winged insects characterized by active flight)

family Muscidae; Muscidae (two-winged flies especially the housefly)

Muscoidea; superfamily Muscoidea (two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae)

Cecidomyidae; family Cecidomyidae (gall midges)

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (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)

Holonyms ("Diptera" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

Derivation:

dipterous (of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera)

 Context examples 

A genus of small, American flies, Diptera.

(Drosophila, NCI Thesaurus)