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Noun: dipterous insect
  1. 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, lapping or piercing
    - two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron

Derived forms: dipterous insects

Type of: insect

Part of: Diptera, order Diptera

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