family glossinidae

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   flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies

   SynonymsGlossinidae

   Broaderarthropod family

   Part ofDiptera

Questions about family glossinidae

What does family glossinidae mean?

family glossinidae means "flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies".

What is another word for family glossinidae?

Close synonyms include Glossinidae. 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 family glossinidae a common word?

family glossinidae 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.