dipteran

dip·ter·an  (dptr-n) also dip·ter·on (-t-rn)

n.

A dipterous insect.

adj.

Of or belonging to the order Diptera; dipterous.

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dipteran  (dptr-n)

Any of various insects of the order Diptera, characterized by a single pair of membranous wings, a pair of club-shaped balancing organs, and large compound eyes. Dipterans include the flies, mosquitoes, midges, and gnats.

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dipterous adjective

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

dipteran - 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 dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects haltere, balancer, halter - either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight insect - small air-breathing arthropod Diptera, order Diptera - 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 gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly - fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants fly - two-winged insects characterized by active flight bee killer, robber fly - swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing fruit fly, pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits hippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals mosquito - two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals gnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies fungus gnat - mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid - minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings crane fly, daddy longlegs - long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite