what does two-winged insects mean?
TWO-WINGED INSECTS as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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
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Hypernyms(s) two-winged insects is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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