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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 flies
Familiarity information: HIPPOBOSCIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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