WordNet
two-winged insects
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, dipteran, dipteron]
Usage examples of "two-winged insects".
In the intervening columns of blue air a whole hierarchy of flying creatures ranked themselves, layer by layer: First the low- flying beetles, bees and two-winged insects.
In theintervening columns of blue air a whole hierarchy of flyingcreatures ranked themselves, layer by layer: First the low-flying beetles, bees and two-winged insects.