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

Roots

disdi- · Greek · two pteronpter- · Greek · wing anus-an · Latin · pertaining to

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