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fly-wire

fly-wire is the alternative form of flywire.

Meaning of flywire

Noun

flywire (usually uncountable, plural flywires)

  1. (Australia, usually) A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
    • He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 126

Forms of fly-wire

pluralfly-wires

Questions about fly-wire

What is fly-wire the alternative form of?
Fly-wire is the alternative form of flywire.

Words near fly-wire in the dictionary

  1. fly-tips
  2. fly-trap
  3. fly-traps
  4. fly-under
  5. fly-unders
  6. fly-wire
  7. fly-wires
  8. flyabilities
  9. flyability
  10. flyable
  11. flyaround

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