Definition of Dipterans

1. Noun. (plural of dipteran) ¹

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Definition of Dipterans

1. dipteran [n] - See also: dipteran

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipterans

dipsology
dipsomania
dipsomaniac
dipsomaniacal
dipsomaniacs
dipsomanias
dipsos
dipsosis
dipsotherapy
dipsticks
dipswitch
dipt
dipteral
dipteran
dipterans (current term)
dipteras
diptericin
dipterist
dipterists
dipterocarp
dipterocarps
dipterocarpus
dipteroi
dipteron
dipterons
dipteros
dipterous
dipterous insect
dipterygian

Literary usage of Dipterans

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

1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"The dipterans are also distinguished by having the mouth in thu form of a sucker, composed of from two to six lancet-shaped elongated scales, ..."

2. Handbook on Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention and Control Planning (1993)
"... Trichoptera = mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies) were used to represent species sensitive to pollution, while chironomid dipterans (blackflies), ..."

3. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1855)
"... the whole constituting a musquito elysium for these pestilent dipterans, both rural and urban, permitting them to choose the polluted water with its ..."

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