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fishfly

English

Etymology

fish +? fly

Noun

fishfly (plural fishflies)

  1. (Canada) A mayfly.
  2. Any insect in the corydalid subfamily Chauliodinae. Unlike most dobsonflies (subfamily Corydalinae) they don't have the enlarged mandibles typical (at least in the males) of that subfamily.

Anagrams

  • fly-fish, flyfish

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dobsonfly

English

Etymology

Unknown; possibly Dobson +? fly

Noun

dobsonfly (plural dobsonflies)

  1. Any insect of the subfamily Corydalinae, whose males have long mandibles, found in the Americas and related most closely to the fishfly.

Translations

See also

  • hellgramite (dobsonfly larva)

Further reading

  • dobsonfly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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