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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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: dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dipteran \Dip"ter*an\, n. (Zool.) An insect of the order Diptera. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dipteran n 1: 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: dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron]