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FAMILY TREPHRITIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fruit flies; some leaf miners

Synonyms:

family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Trephritidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Trephritidae"):

genus Rhagoletis; Rhagoletis (a genus of Trypetidae)

Ceratitis; genus Ceratitis (Mediterranean fruit flies)

genus Philophylla; Philophylla (leaf miners)

Holonyms ("family Trephritidae" 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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