TRYPETIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trypetidae mean? 

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

1. fruit flies; some leaf miners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRYPETIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit flies; some leaf miners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Trypetidae"):

genus Rhagoletis; Rhagoletis (a genus of Trypetidae)

Ceratitis; genus Ceratitis (Mediterranean fruit flies)

genus Philophylla; Philophylla (leaf miners)

Holonyms ("Trypetidae" 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)