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eye flies

eye flies is the plural of eye fly.

Meaning of eye fly

Noun

eye fly (plural eye flies)

  1. Any of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.
    • Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93
    Synonyms:
    eye gnat

Questions about eye flies

What is eye flies the plural of?
Eye flies is the plural of eye fly.

Words near eye flies in the dictionary

  1. eye drops
  2. eye examination
  3. eye examinations
  4. eye fillet
  5. eye fillets
  6. eye flies
  7. eye fly
  8. eye for an eye
  9. eye for eye
  10. eye fuck
  11. eye fucked

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