"Balancer" is a word in ENGLISH
In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.
One who balances, or uses a balance.
The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a thing stranger: to explore such a city only after one has lived in it for some time without learning anything of it.
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An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They …
Read the complete definitionHaving two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Read the complete definitionAn insect of the order Diptera.
Read the complete definitionHaving two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Read the complete definitionAny dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
Read the complete definitionAn excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most …
Read the complete definitionBalancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
Read the complete definitionThe sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
Read the complete definitionThe anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. …
Read the complete definitionAn insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora.
Read the complete definitionOne of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.
Read the complete definitionA division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep …
Read the complete definitionBearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.
Read the complete definitionA genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other …
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