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FAMILY TREPHRITIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Trephritidae mean?
• FAMILY TREPHRITIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY TREPHRITIDAE has 1 sense:
1. fruit flies; some leaf miners
Familiarity information: FAMILY TREPHRITIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit flies; some leaf miners
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae
Hypernyms ("family Trephritidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Trephritidae"):
genus Rhagoletis; Rhagoletis (a genus of Trypetidae)
Ceratitis; genus Ceratitis (Mediterranean fruit flies)
genus Philophylla; Philophylla (leaf miners)
Holonyms ("family Trephritidae" 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)
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