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FAMILY ASILIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Robber flies
Synonyms:
Asilidae; family Asilidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Asilidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family 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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