dipteron

[ dip-tuh-ron ]

noun

, plural dip·ter·a [dip, -ter-, uh].

1. a dipterous insect.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dipteron¹

1890–95; < Greek, neuter of dípteros; Diptera

Example Sentences

If I do not employ a bell-glass or keep an assiduous watch, rarely does the shrewish Dipteron fail to alight upon my patient and explore him with her proboscis.

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Each time she passed, the little lizard licked his chops and swallowed—a sort of vicarious expression of faith or desire; or was he in a Christian Science frame of mind, saying, "My, how good that fly tasted!" each time the dipteron passed?

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Thorax of a Dipteron to show location of bristles.

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He who says Midge says Fly, Dipteron, two-winged insect; and our friend has four wings, one and all adapted for flying.

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In her eyes, which see farther than ours, the Eristalis is an odious Dipteron, a lover of corruption, and nothing more.

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