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ASILIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Robber flies

Synonyms:

Asilidae; family Asilidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Asilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Asilidae"):

bee killer; robber fly (swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing)

Holonyms ("Asilidae" is a member of...):

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)

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