CALLIPHORIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calliphoridae mean? 

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

1. blowflies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLIPHORIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blowflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Calliphoridae; family Calliphoridae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Calliphoridae"):

Calliphora; genus Calliphora (type genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies)

genus Lucilia; Lucilia (greenbottle flies)

genus Sarcophaga; Sarcophaga (flesh flies)

Holonyms ("Calliphoridae" 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)