Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hippoboscid

1 sense of hippoboscid

Sense 1
louse fly, hippoboscid -- (bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (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)