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HIPPOBOSCID

• HIPPOBOSCID (noun)
The noun HIPPOBOSCID has 1 sense:

1. bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals

Familiarity information: HIPPOBOSCID used as a noun is very rare.

• HIPPOBOSCID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hippoboscid; louse fly

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

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hippoboscid"):

Hippobosca equina; horse tick; horsefly (winged fly parasitic on horses)

Melophagus Ovinus; sheep ked; sheep tick; sheep-tick (wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle)

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

family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae (winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies)

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