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FAMILY TABANIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horseflies
Synonyms:
family Tabanidae; Tabanidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Tabanidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Tabanidae"):
cleg; clegg; horse fly; horsefly (large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals)
Holonyms ("family 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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