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NEMATOCERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nematocera mean?
• NEMATOCERA (noun)
The noun NEMATOCERA has 1 sense:
1. mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies
Familiarity information: NEMATOCERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Nematocera; suborder Nematocera
Hypernyms ("Nematocera" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Nematocera"):
Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)
Ceratopogonidae; family Ceratopogonidae (biting midges; sand flies)
Chironomidae; family Chironomidae (midges)
family Mycetophylidae; Mycetophilidae (fungus gnats)
family Psychodidae; Psychodidae (very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies)
family Sciaridae; Sciaridae (fungus gnats)
family Tipulidae; Tipulidae (crane flies)
Holonyms ("Nematocera" 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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