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Brachycera
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Translingual
Etymology
From mul grc βραχύς short + grc κέρας antenna, referring to their short, bi- or tri-segmented antennae (which are sometimes pseudosegmented).
Proper noun
suborder order Diptera almost all flies
Hypernyms
suborder
Hyponyms
suborder Asilomorpha infraorder, Muscomorpha infraorder, Stratiomyomorpha infraorder, Tabanomorpha infraorder, Vermileonomorpha infraorder, Xylophagomorpha infraorder infraorders
References
mul Dipterans