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TACHINIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Parasites on other insects

Synonyms:

family Tachinidae; Tachinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Tachinidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Tachinidae"):

tachina fly (bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects)

Holonyms ("Tachinidae" is a member of...):

Diptera; order Diptera (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)

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