"acrocerid" meaning in English

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          "text": "The winged form of acrocerids is characterized by a great reduction in the size of the head, by very great increase of the thorax with weak legs, and by small, often costalized wings; the flies feed, if at all, on the nectar of flowers.",
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        "(entomology) Any fly of the family Acroceridae."
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