Associations to the word «Dipteron»

Dictionary definition

DIPTERON, 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

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