Crossword-Solution: DIPTERA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diptera | n. pl. | An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIPTERA | anagram | PARTIED, PERDITA, PIRATED |
We have 5 clues for the answer “DIPTERA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flies, in biology | 1 answer |
| Group of insects, including the housefly. | 1 answer |
| Housefly's order | 1 answer |
| PA tried various fliers | 1 answer |
| order of insects with two wings | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIPTERA (5)
Even in the upper and damp region I procured very few, excepting some minute Diptera and Hymenoptera, mostly of common mundane forms.
Only one group remained unaffected by the intense drought; the Diptera, or two-winged flies, continued as plentifully as ever, and on these I was almost compelled to concentrate my attention for a week or two, by which means I increased my collection of that Order to about two hundred species.
Now the curious projections or horns to the stamens of Monochaetum are full of fluid, and the suspicion occurs to me that diptera or small hymenoptera may puncture these horns like they puncture (proved since my orchid book was published) the dry nectaries of true Orchis.
The mosquitoes of Loreto have a deserved reputation for driving away such visitors as do not care to leave much of their blood with the redoubtable diptera.
The inventory of the Hornet's larder will include Diptera clad in grey or russet frieze; others are girdled with yellow, flecked with white, adorned with crimson lines; others are steel-blue, ebony black, or coppery green; and underneath this variety of dissimilar costumes we find the invariable Fly.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1956–2009).