two-winged insects

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Noun
1. 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
(synonym) dipterous insect, dipteran, dipteron
(hypernym) insect
(hyponym) gall midge, gallfly, gall gnat
(member-holonym) Diptera, order Diptera
(part-meronym) halter, haltere, balancer