dipteron
Americannoun
plural
dipteraEtymology
Origin of dipteron
1890–95; < Greek, neuter of dípteros; Diptera
Example Sentences
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If I do not employ a bell-glass or keep an assiduous watch, rarely does the shrewish Dipteron fail to alight upon my patient and explore him with her proboscis.
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Each time she passed, the little lizard licked his chops and swallowed—a sort of vicarious expression of faith or desire; or was he in a Christian Science frame of mind, saying, "My, how good that fly tasted!" each time the dipteron passed?
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Thorax of a Dipteron to show location of bristles.
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He who says Midge says Fly, Dipteron, two-winged insect; and our friend has four wings, one and all adapted for flying.
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In her eyes, which see farther than ours, the Eristalis is an odious Dipteron, a lover of corruption, and nothing more.
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