dipterous insect

Questions about dipterous insect

What does dipterous insect mean?

dipterous insect means "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".

What is another word for dipterous insect?

Close synonyms include two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dipterous insect a common word?

dipterous insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.