two-winged insects

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   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

   Synonymsdipterous insectdipterandipteron

   Broaderinsect

   Narrowergall midgeflyrobber flyfruit flylouse flymosquitognatfungus gnatcrane fly

   Part ofDiptera

   Partshalter

Questions about two-winged insects

What does two-winged insects mean?

two-winged insects 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 two-winged insects?

Close synonyms include dipterous insect, 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 two-winged insects a common word?

two-winged insects 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.