nematocera

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nematocera(n = noun.animal) suborder nematocera - mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies; Array

is a kind of animal order

is a member of diptera, order diptera

nematocera, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread + ke`ras horn.].

A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennæ, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera. [1913 Webster]

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