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Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
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dipteran
Word definitions for dipteran in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dipteran \Dip"ter*an\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An insect of the order Diptera. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of dipterous English) n. Any of very many fly, of the order ''Diptera'', that have two wings.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing [syn: dipterous insect , two-winged insects , dipteron ]