| dipterous insect | (n) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing, Syn. dipteran, dipteron, two-winged insects |
| Dipteran | n. (Zool.) An insect of the order Diptera. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 双翅類 | [そうしるい, soushirui] (n) (obsc) (See 蠅目) dipterans [Add to Longdo] |