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Dipteran

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Noun

1. dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dipteran

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noun
1. 
any dipterous insect
adjective
2.  another word for dipterous (sense 1)

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Dipteran

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noun
any of a large order (Diptera) of insects, including the true flies, mosquitoes, and gnats, usually having one pair of functional, membranous wings and a vestigial second pair used as a balancing organ

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dipteran

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n.
Any of numerous insects of the order Diptera, characterized by a single pair of membranous wings and a pair of club-shaped balancing organs, and including the housefly and the mosquitoes.

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