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Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Beefeater
noun · 78% connection
An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two specie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Berna fly
unknown · 78% connection
A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Boat bug
unknown · 78% connection
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Breeze fly
noun · 78% connection
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- cal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Cockroach
noun · 78% connection
An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Cricket
noun · 78% connection
An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Daddy longlegs
unknown · 78% connection
A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slende…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Drone fly
unknown · 78% connection
A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Filefish
noun · 78% connection
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Finback
noun · 78% connection
Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Forester
noun · 78% connection
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Gallfly
noun · 78% connection
An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. Se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Generalize
verb · 78% connection
To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Globefish
noun · 78% connection
A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Hemerobian
noun · 78% connection
A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
Hoopoo
noun · 78% connection
A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dipterous, insect, genus, oestrus, allied.
