Definitions for dipterous

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dipterous dip·ter·ous

Spelling: [dip-ter-uh s]

IPA: /ˈdɪp tər əs/

Dipterous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 795 anagrams from letters in dipterous (deioprstu).

Definitions for dipterous

adjective

1. Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
2. Botany. having two winglike appendages, as seeds or stems.

Origin of dipterous

1765-75; New Latin dipterus Greek dípteros; see Diptera, -ous

Examples for dipterous

More than one expedition has failed on account of this dipterous fly.

It moved, like other dipterous larv, by means of its mandibles.

Setarious aristate: the dipterous antenna when the arista is simple.

It is extremely susceptible to the attacks of a dipterous parasite.

Cecidomyia, ses-i-dom-ī′ya, n. a genus of dipterous (two-winged) insects in the Tipularia (gnat and mosquito) division.

Gnat, nat, n. a genus of dipterous insects of numerous species, esp.

dipterous: belonging to or having the characters of Diptera.

Diopsis, dī-op′sis, n. a genus of dipterous insects, of the fly family.

The posterior stigmata of dipterous larv as a diagnostic character.

Dip′teran, a dipterous insect; Dip′teros, a building with double peristyle or colonnade.