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HIPPOBOSCIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippoboscidae mean? 

HIPPOBOSCIDAE (noun)
  The noun HIPPOBOSCIDAE has 1 sense:

1. winged or wingless dipterans: louse fliesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HIPPOBOSCIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Hippoboscidae"):

hippoboscid; louse fly (bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals)

genus Hippobosca; Hippobosca (type genus of the Hippoboscidae)

genus Melophagus; Melophagus (an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked)

Holonyms ("Hippoboscidae" 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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