ASILIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asilidae mean? 

• ASILIDAE (noun)
  The noun ASILIDAE has 1 sense:

1. robber flies

  Familiarity information: ASILIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASILIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Robber flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Asilidae; family Asilidae

Hypernyms ("Asilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Asilidae"):

bee killer; robber fly (swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing)

Holonyms ("Asilidae" is a member of...):

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)