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Asilidae

noun

robber flies

• Syn: ↑family Asilidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Diptera, ↑order Diptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑robber fly, ↑bee killer

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\\əˈsiləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Asilus, type genus + -idae

: a family of rather large usually slender two-winged flies with strong legs and wings and the proboscis a hardened beak used for sucking the body fluids of other insects which they capture on the wing — compare robber fly

Useful english dictionary. 2012.