单词 | diptera |
释义 | Dipteran. Entomology. With plural agreement. The two-winged flies, a large order of insects having one pair of membranous wings, with a pair of halteres or poisers representing a posterior pair. Well-known examples are the common house-fly, the gnats, gad-flies, and crane-flies. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] maggot fly1606 Diptera1813 scuttle fly1976 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Diptera, in zoology, an order of the class insecta, characterised by having two wings, under each of which is a clavate poise with its appropriate scale. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 165 The other orders in most use by the fly-fisher are..the diptera, or two-winged. 1879 A. W. Bennett in Academy 33 Abundantly visited by insects, especially Diptera. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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