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Tabanidae

noun

horseflies

• Syn: ↑family Tabanidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Diptera, ↑order Diptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑horsefly, ↑cleg, ↑clegg, ↑horse fly

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\\təˈbanəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

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

: a very large and important family of Diptera comprising the horseflies and deerflies whose females suck blood and sometimes transmit disease (as loaiasis) to human beings

Useful english dictionary. 2012.