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MUSCOIDEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Muscoidea mean?
• MUSCOIDEA (noun)
The noun MUSCOIDEA has 1 sense:
1. two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae
Familiarity information: MUSCOIDEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Muscoidea; superfamily Muscoidea
Hypernyms ("Muscoidea" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Holonyms ("Muscoidea" is a member of...):
Diptera; order Diptera (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)
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