hippoboscid
English Thesaurus
1. bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, |
| definition | : | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hippobosca equina, horse tick, horsefly, |
| definition | : | winged fly parasitic on horses (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | melophagus ovinus, sheep ked, sheep tick, sheep-tick, |
| definition | : | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family hippoboscidae, hippoboscidae, |
| definition | : | winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies (noun.animal) |
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