SUBORDER NEMATOCERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Nematocera mean? 

• SUBORDER NEMATOCERA (noun)
  The noun SUBORDER NEMATOCERA has 1 sense:

1. mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies

  Familiarity information: SUBORDER NEMATOCERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBORDER NEMATOCERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Nematocera; suborder Nematocera

Hypernyms ("suborder Nematocera" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Nematocera"):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)

Ceratopogonidae; family Ceratopogonidae (biting midges; sand flies)

Chironomidae; family Chironomidae (midges)

family Mycetophylidae; Mycetophilidae (fungus gnats)

family Psychodidae; Psychodidae (very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies)

family Sciaridae; Sciaridae (fungus gnats)

family Tipulidae; Tipulidae (crane flies)

Holonyms ("suborder Nematocera" 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)