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flywires

flywires is the plural 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

Questions about flywires

What is flywires the plural of?
Flywires is the plural of flywire.

Words near flywires in the dictionary

  1. flywheel
  2. flywheels
  3. flywhisk
  4. flywhisks
  5. flywire
  6. flywires
  7. flyworthy
  8. flânerie
  9. flâneries
  10. flâneur
  11. flâneurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flywires (page history and authors); flywire (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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