Definition of Dipterons

1. dipteron [n] - See also: dipteron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipterons

dipsticks
dipswitch
dipt
dipteral
dipteran
dipterans
dipteras
diptericin
dipterist
dipterists
dipterocarp
dipterocarps
dipterocarpus
dipteroi
dipteron
dipterons (current term)
dipteros
dipterous
dipterous insect
dipterygian
dipthong
diptote
diptotes
diptyca
diptycas
diptych
diptychs
dipygus
dipylidiasis
dipyramid

Literary usage of Dipterons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"We can escape in some manner our insect enemies in the other orders, but not always the dipterons. In this order we have the mosquito family, some members ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... Locusts were destroyed by the larvae of a Sarcophaga living in their bodies; and 1 A list of the Insects known to be attacked by dipterons parasites has ..."

3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1876)
"I have, however, observed in my breeding boxes foni examples of a rather large dipterons parasite, probably of the genus Tachina. ..."

4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1894)
"After the announcement I resolved to watch carefully for the appearance of these dipterons in this district. I have already recorded the occurrence and ..."

5. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1887)
"... Kew Gardens, in September last, my attention was drawn to what at first sight appeared to be a host of small dipterons, travelling with great rapidity ..."

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