suborder nematocera

1. 1.

   mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies

   SynonymsNematocera

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofDiptera

Questions about suborder nematocera

What does suborder nematocera mean?

suborder nematocera means "mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies".

What is another word for suborder nematocera?

Close synonyms include Nematocera. 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 suborder nematocera a common word?

suborder nematocera 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.