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FAMILY CALLIPHORIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blowflies
Synonyms:
Calliphoridae; family Calliphoridae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Calliphoridae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Calliphoridae"):
Calliphora; genus Calliphora (type genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies)
genus Lucilia; Lucilia (greenbottle flies)
genus Sarcophaga; Sarcophaga (flesh flies)
Holonyms ("family Calliphoridae" 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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