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Diptera

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: order Diptera.



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"Diptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the Master, he stood fire perfectly, as he always does; but the idea that he, who had worked a considerable part of several seasons at examining and preparing insects, who believed himself to have given a new tabanus to the catalogue of native diptera, the idea that he was playing with science, and might be trusted anywhere as a harmless amateur, from whom no expert could possibly fear any anticipation of his unpublished discoveries, went beyond anything set down in that book of his which contained so ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)



Words linked to "Diptera" :   suborder Nematocera, Trephritidae, Gasterophilidae, Calliphoridae, Nematocera, family Tabanidae, animal order, Muscidae, Tachinidae, two-winged insects, class Insecta, Bombyliidae, superfamily Muscoidea, family Glossinidae, family Muscidae, family Bombyliidae, family Calliphoridae, Trypetidae, Hexapoda, family Simuliidae, Cuterebridae, family Trephritidae, Insecta, Simuliidae, class Hexapoda, dipterous insect, family Trypetidae, Tabanidae, family Oestridae, fly, Glossinidae, dipteron, family Tachinidae, Drosophilidae, Cecidomyidae, family Hippoboscidae, family Cuterebridae, Muscoidea, Hypodermatidae, Hippoboscidae, genus Haematobia, Asilidae, family Cecidomyidae, family Drosophilidae, family Asilidae, dipteran, Haematobia, family Gasterophilidae, Oestridae, family Hypodermatidae, dipterous



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