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dipteron

dipteron noun: any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera. Also the alternative form of dipteros.

Noun

dipteron (plural diptera)

  1. Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.
    • The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has...1895, C. J. Watkins, “The Denizens of an Old Cherry Tree, With Notes of its Surroundings”, in The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, volume 14, page 9
    • A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.1905, Charles Wardell Stiles, Albert Hassall, The Determination of Generic Types and a List of Roundworm Genera, with Their Original and Type Species

Also used as

dipteron is also the alternative form of dipteros.

Forms of dipteron

pluraldiptera

Origin of dipteron

From translingual Diptera.

Words formed from dipteron

Questions about dipteron

What does dipteron mean?
Dipteron means any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.
What part of speech is dipteron?
Dipteron is a noun.
What is the plural of dipteron?
The plural of dipteron is diptera.

Words near dipteron in the dictionary

  1. dipteroi
  2. dipterological
  3. dipterologist
  4. dipterologists
  5. dipterology
  6. dipteron
  7. dipterons
  8. dipterophagous
  9. dipteros
  10. dipterose
  11. dipterous

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