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.