Associations to the word «Dipteran»

Wiktionary

DIPTERAN, noun. Any of very many flies, of the order Diptera, that have two wings.
DIPTERAN, adjective. Alternative form of dipterous

Dictionary definition

DIPTERAN, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats