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Definition of Dipterans
1. dipteran [n] - See also: dipteran
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipterans
Literary usage of Dipterans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"The dipterans are also distinguished by having the mouth in thu form of a sucker,
composed of from two to six lancet-shaped elongated scales, ..."
2. Handbook on Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention and Control Planning (1993)
"... Trichoptera = mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies) were used to represent
species sensitive to pollution, while chironomid dipterans (blackflies), ..."
3. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1855)
"... the whole constituting a musquito elysium for these pestilent dipterans, both
rural and urban, permitting them to choose the polluted water with its ..."
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