tabanidae

English Thesaurus

1. horseflies (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod family,
definition	:	any of the arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	cleg, clegg, horse fly, horsefly,
definition	:	large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	diptera, order diptera,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)