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

1 sense of robber fly

Sense 1
robber fly, bee killer -- (swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing)
       => 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)