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fishflies

fishflies is the plural of fishfly.

Meaning of fishfly

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.

Questions about fishflies

What is fishflies the plural of?
Fishflies is the plural of fishfly.

Words near fishflies in the dictionary

  1. fishfinder
  2. fishfinders
  3. fishfinding
  4. fishfinger
  5. fishfingers
  6. fishflies
  7. fishfly
  8. fishfolk
  9. fishfood
  10. fishfoods
  11. fishful

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