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FAMILY ASILIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Asilidae mean?
• FAMILY ASILIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY ASILIDAE has 1 sense:
1. robber flies
Familiarity information: FAMILY ASILIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Robber flies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Asilidae; family Asilidae
Hypernyms ("family Asilidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Asilidae"):
bee killer; robber fly (swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing)
Holonyms ("family Asilidae" 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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