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crane fly

crane fly is the alternative form of cranefly.

Meaning of cranefly

Noun

cranefly (plural craneflies)

  1. Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
    Synonyms:
    daddy longlegs, gullywhumper, gollywhopper, mosquito hawk, mosquito-eater

Forms of crane fly

pluralcrane flies

Questions about crane fly

What is crane fly the alternative form of?
Crane fly is the alternative form of cranefly.

Words near crane fly in the dictionary

  1. crane driver
  2. crane drivers
  3. crane engine
  4. crane engines
  5. crane flies
  6. crane fly
  7. crane game
  8. crane games
  9. crane locomotive
  10. crane locomotives
  11. crane operator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crane fly (page history and authors); cranefly (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.

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