crane fly vs dipteran

dipteran vs crane fly

crane fly and dipteran both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crane fly	Yes	No	No	No
dipteran	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dipteran is a hypernym of crane fly; that is, dipteran is a word with a broader meaning than crane fly:

crane fly: long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite
dipteran: insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

Other hypernyms of crane fly include dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects.

crane fly (noun)	dipteran (noun)
long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite	insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

Difference between crane fly and dipteran

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