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Meanings of dipteron in English

Catalan
dípter

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.

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Usage of dipteron in English
1
She is a Dipteron, or Fly, five millimetres long.
Bramble-Bees and Others
2
He who says Midge says Fly, Dipteron, two-winged insect; and our friend has four wings, one and all adapted for flying.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
3
In her eyes, which see farther than ours, the Eristalis is an odious Dipteron, a lover of corruption, and nothing more.
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Translations for dipteron
Catalan
dípter