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FAMILY HIPPOBOSCIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
Synonyms:
family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Hippoboscidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Hippoboscidae"):
hippoboscid; louse fly (bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals)
genus Hippobosca; Hippobosca (type genus of the Hippoboscidae)
genus Melophagus; Melophagus (an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked)
Holonyms ("family Hippoboscidae" 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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