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Word Meanings - DIPTERAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An insect of the order Diptera.

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  • INSECTATOR
    A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • INSECTION
    A cutting in; incisure; incision.
  • INSECTATION
    The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
  • INSECTOLOGER
    An entomologist.
  • INSECTIVORA
    1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
  • INSECTIVOROUS
    Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
  • DIPTERAL
    Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
  • DIPTERA
    An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo
  • INSECTILE
    Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • DIPTERAN
    An insect of the order Diptera.
  • ORDER
    1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
  • INSECTARY
    A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
  • ORDERING
    Disposition; distribution; management. South.
  • INSECT
    1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
  • INSECTED
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
  • ORDERABLE
    Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
  • INSECTOLOGY
    Entomology.
  • ORDERER
    1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • DISORDER
    1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
  • MISORDERLY
    Irregular; disorderly.
  • DISORDERLY
    Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
  • SEA-BORDERING
    Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
  • RECORDER
    A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
  • SUPERORDER
    A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
  • DISORDERED
    1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
  • PSEUDO-DIPTERAL
    Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.
  • RECORDERSHIP
    The office of a recorder.
  • REORDER
    To order a second time.

 

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