dipterous insect vs fruit fly

fruit fly vs dipterous insect

dipterous insect and fruit fly both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dipterous insect	Yes	No	No	No
fruit fly	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fruit fly is a hyponym of dipterous insect; that is, fruit fly is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dipterous insect:

dipterous insect: 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
fruit fly: any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits

Other hyponyms of dipterous insect include gall gnat, gall midge, gallfly, fly, bee killer, robber fly, pomace fly, hippoboscid, louse fly, mosquito, gnat, fungus gnat, fungus gnat, sciara, sciarid, crane fly, daddy longlegs.

dipterous insect (noun)	fruit fly (noun)
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	any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits

Difference between dipterous insect and fruit fly

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