GLOSSINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Glossinidae mean? 

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

1. flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOSSINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Glossinidae; Glossinidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Glossinidae"):

genus Glossina (type genus of the Glossinidae: tsetse flies)

Holonyms ("Glossinidae" 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)