| 单词 | dipteron |
| 释义 | dipteron (once / 1688473 pages) n WORD FAMILY dipteron USAGE EXAMPLESThorax of a Dipteron to show location of bristles. Smith, John. B., Explanation of Terms Used in Entomo...(2010) He who says Midge says Fly, Dipteron, two-winged insect; and our friend has four wings, one and all adapted for flying. Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, The Wonders of Instinct—Chapters i...(2010) In her eyes, which see farther than ours, the Eristalis is an odious Dipteron, a lover of corruption, and nothing more. Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, More Hunting Wasps(2010) n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper dipteran, dipterous insect, two-winged insects gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants flytwo-winged insects characterized by active flight bee killer, robber flyswift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing fruit fly, pomace flyany of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits hippoboscid, louse flybloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals mosquitotwo-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals gnatany of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies fungus gnatmosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation fungus gnat, sciara, sciaridminute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings crane fly, daddy longlegslong-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructorsmall fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains Musca domestica, house fly, houseflycommon fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases glossina, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze flybloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. blow fly, blowflylarge usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds Sarcophaga carnaria, flesh flyfly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals tachina flybristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects gadflyany of various large flies that annoy livestock bee flyhairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects Rhagoletis pomonella, apple maggot, railroad wormlarvae bore into and feed on apples Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly, medflysmall black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit Drosophila melanogaster, drosophilasmall fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance vinegar flyflies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves Hippobosca equina, horse tick, horseflywinged fly parasitic on horses Melophagus Ovinus, sheep ked, sheep tick, sheep-tickwingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle Haematobia irritans, horn flysmall black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn gnat(British usage) mosquito Aedes aegypti, yellow-fever mosquitomosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue Aedes albopictus, Asian tiger mosquitostriped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases anophelineany mosquito of the genus Anopheles malaria mosquito, malarial mosquitotransmits the malaria parasite Culex pipiens, common mosquitocommon house mosquito Culex fatigans, Culex quinquefasciatuswidespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie, punkyminute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects midgeminute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water psychodida fly of the family Psychodidae Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly, sandflyany of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis armywormlarva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted black fly, blackfly, buffalo gnatsmall blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals insect small air-breathing arthropod |
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