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TABANIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Horseflies

Synonyms:

family Tabanidae; Tabanidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Tabanidae"):

cleg; clegg; horse fly; horsefly (large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals)

Holonyms ("Tabanidae" 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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