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Diptera

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Word	Definition
order dipteranoun	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

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Word	Definition
order dipteranoun	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
dipterannoun	(entomology) An insect of the large order Diptera; a fly.
hemipteranoun	an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
hymenopteranoun	Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
coleopteranoun	beetles
insectanoun	a cooperative board game that was published by Sierra Madre Games and Fat Messiah Games in 1992.
odonatanoun	an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies).
hippoboscidaenoun	winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
trypetidaenoun	fruit flies; some leafminers
cuterebridaenoun	new world botflies
subgenusnoun	(taxonomy) A subdivision of a genus.
drosophila melanogasternoun	a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.
humanusnoun	—
subspnoun	Abbreviation of subspecies. [(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below species.]
cecidomyidaenoun	gall midges
chiropteranoun	the order of flying mammals commonly called "bats".
albicansnoun	—
felisnoun	a genus of small and medium-sized cat species native to most of Africa and south of 60° latitude in Europe and Asia to Indochina.
louse flynoun	A ked (parasitic fly of the family Hippoboscidae).
giganteanoun	—