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fishfly

fishfly noun: a mayfly.

fishfly: a mayfly
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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.

Forms of fishfly

pluralfishflies

Origin of fishfly

From fish + fly.

Questions about fishfly

What does fishfly mean?
Fishfly means a mayfly.
What part of speech is fishfly?
Fishfly is a noun.
What is the plural of fishfly?
The plural of fishfly is fishflies.

Words near fishfly in the dictionary

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

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