Usually means: Pertaining to two-winged insects.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word dipterous:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dipterous: Merriam-Webster
  2. dipterous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dipterous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dipterous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dipterous: Vocabulary.com
  6. dipterous: Wordnik
  7. dipterous: Wiktionary
  8. dipterous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dipterous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dipterous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dipterous: Dictionary.com
  12. Dipterous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Dipterous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dipterous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dipterous: Rhymezone
  16. Dipterous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dipterous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dipterous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dipterous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dipterous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dipterous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dipterous: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dipteran as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dipterous)

▸ adjective:  Of, or pertaining to, Diptera or the dipterans.
▸ adjective:  Having two wings.

Similar:
dipterological, hemipterous, dirofilarial, hemipteral, trichopterous, polyneopterous, dioptric, homopterous, diatomaceous, lepidopterous, more...

Opposite:
undipterous, monodipterous, apterous

Types:
mosquito, fly, gnat, no-see-um, fruit fly, house fly, bot fly, more...

Phrases:
dipterous insect, more...

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Similar:
dipterological, hemipterous, dirofilarial, hemipteral, trichopterous, polyneopterous, dioptric, homopterous, diatomaceous, lepidopterous, more...

Opposite:
undipterous, monodipterous, apterous

Types:
mosquito, fly, gnat, no-see-um, fruit fly, house fly, bot fly, more...

Phrases:
dipterous insect, more...



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