Platypezidae
plural noun
Platy·pez·i·dae
: a small family of two-winged flies having larvae that breed in fungi and adults that often fly in swarms see smoke fly
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Platypeza, type genus (from platy- + Greek peza foot, lower part of a body) + -idae; akin to Sanskrit padya of the foot, Latin ped-, pes foot
- spaniels
- spaning
- spaniolated
- spaniolates
- spaniolating
- spaniolise
- spaniolised
- spaniolises
- spaniolising
- spaniolized
- spaniolizes
- spaniolizing
- spanipelagic
- Spanish
- Spanish America
- Spanish American
- Spanish bayonet
- Spanish beard
- Spanish billiards
- Spanish bluebell
- Spanish bowline
- Spanish broom
- Spanish brown
- Spanish buckeye
- Spanish bugloss