TACHINID


Meaning of TACHINID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈta-kə-nəd, -ˌnid ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Tachinidae, from Tachina, genus of flies, from Greek tachinos fleet, from tachys swift

Date: 1888

: any of a family (Tachinidae) of bristly usually grayish or black dipteran flies whose parasitic larvae are often used in the biological control of insect pests

• tachinid adjective

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