Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the insect order Diptera; dipteran.
- adjective Having two wings, as certain insects, or winglike appendages, as certain fruits and seeds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, having two wings; specifically, pertaining to or having the characters of the order Diptera (which see).
- 2. In botany, having two wing-like membranous appendages; bialate: applied to stems, fruits, seeds, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
- adjective (Bot.) Having two wings; two-winged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to,
Diptera .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the very reason of their being dipterous is that they are small and weak, and therefore require no more than two feathers to support their light weight; and the same reason which reduces their feathers to two causes their sting to be in front; for their strength is not sufficient to allow them to strike efficiently with the hinder part of the body.
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Of creatures that can fly and are bloodless some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they have their wings in a sheath or shard, like the cockchafer and the dung-beetle; others are sheathless, and of these latter some are dipterous and some tetrapterous: tetrapterous, such as are comparatively large or have their stings in the tail, dipterous, such as are comparatively small or have their stings in front.
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Some insects are dipterous or double-winged, as the fly; others are tetrapterous or furnished with four wings, as the bee; and, by the way, no insect with only two wings has a sting in the rear.
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Many species of dipterous insects - fruit fly, face fly, botfly, horn fly, and housefly, for example - are targets for neem products.
5 Effects on Insects 1992
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Jaw-capsule: contains the mouth structures in those dipterous larvae in which the head is differentiated.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Dipterocecidium: a gall formed by a dipterous insect.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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I wish I knew who was the author; you ought to know, as he admires you so much; he has a wonderful deal of knowledge, but his difficulties have not troubled me much as yet, except the case of the dipterous larva.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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Larvina: a maggot: a dipterous larva without distinct head or legs.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Extended notes on various dipterous larvæ infesting man.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Notice of a case in which the larvæ of a dipterous insect, supposed to be _Anthomyia canicularis_, Meig., were expelled in large quantities from the human intestines.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
yarb commented on the word dipterous
...a dipterous insect projecting its proboscis over the dripstone...
- Louis Zukofsky, Thanks to the Dictionary
June 20, 2008