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Scorpion Fly

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Noun

1. scorpion fly

any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scorpion Fly

see synonyms of scorpion fly
noun
any of various insects of the family Panorpidae, of the N hemisphere, having a scorpion-like but nonvenomous tail in the males, long antennae, and a beaklike snout: order Mecoptera

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Scorpion Fly

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mecopteran: the abdomen, in the male, curls up at the end and resembles a scorpion's sting

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

Scorpion Fly

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n.
1. A mecopterous insect of the family Panorpidae, having an elongated beak and in the male of most species a curved genital structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
2. Any mecopterous insect; a mecopteran.

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