Word.ws English Dictionary

catchflies

catchflies is the plural of catchfly.

Meaning of catchfly

Noun

catchfly (plural catchflies)

  1. Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
    • “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177

Phrases with catchflies

Questions about catchflies

What is catchflies the plural of?
Catchflies is the plural of catchfly.

Words near catchflies in the dictionary

  1. catcheth
  2. catchfart
  3. catchfarts
  4. catchfence
  5. catchfences
  6. catchflies
  7. catchfly
  8. catchier
  9. catchiest
  10. catchily
  11. catchin'

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: catchflies (page history and authors); catchfly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “catchflies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/catchflies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.