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brown drakes

brown drakes is the plural of brown drake.

Meaning of brown drake

Noun

brown drake (plural brown drakes)

  1. The lake fly Ephemera simulans, a large mayfly.
    • On the South Fork of the Snake River, I begin to see brown drakes on the surface starting in May. […] the Snake does not have many brown drakes, due to a lack of ideal riverbed substrate.2013, Boots Allen, Snake River Flies: Eighty Years of Proven Patterns for a ...

Questions about brown drakes

What is brown drakes the plural of?
Brown drakes is the plural of brown drake.

Words near brown drakes in the dictionary

  1. brown crab
  2. brown crabs
  3. brown creeper
  4. brown creepers
  5. brown drake
  6. brown drakes
  7. brown dwarf
  8. brown dwarfs
  9. brown dwarves
  10. brown earth
  11. brown envelope journalism

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