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FAMILY TABANIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Tabanidae mean?
• FAMILY TABANIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY TABANIDAE has 1 sense:
1. horseflies
Familiarity information: FAMILY TABANIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horseflies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Tabanidae; Tabanidae
Hypernyms ("family Tabanidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Tabanidae"):
cleg; clegg; horse fly; horsefly (large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals)
Holonyms ("family Tabanidae" 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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