Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun two-winged_insects

1 sense of two-winged insects

Sense 1
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)
       => insect -- (small air-breathing arthropod)