Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dipteros . - noun Same as
dipteran .
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- noun 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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Examples
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Each time she passed, the little lizard licked his chops and swallowed -- a sort of vicarious expression of faith or desire; or was he in a Christian Science frame of mind, saying, "My, how good that fly tasted!" each time the dipteron passed?
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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