An insect having only two wings, as the house- fly:- pl. DIPTERANS or DIPTERA.
One or two examples of the adaptations of dipteran larvae to life in the water may well bring the present chapter to a close. "The Life-Story of Insects", Geo. H. Carpenter
One or two examples of the adaptations of dipteran larvae to life in the water may well bring the present chapter to a close.
A sharply pointed surgeon's knife. ...