Associations to the word «Diptera»

Wiktionary

DIPTERA, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the superorder Endopterygota   — the true flies.

Dictionary definition

DIPTERA, noun. 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope