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green-fly

green-fly is the alternative form of greenfly.

Meaning of greenfly

Noun

greenfly (plural greenflies or greenfly)

  1. Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
  2. Especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid.
  3. Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly.
  4. Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead.
  5. Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris).

Forms of green-fly

pluralgreen-flies

Questions about green-fly

What is green-fly the alternative form of?
Green-fly is the alternative form of greenfly.

Words near green-fly in the dictionary

  1. green-fingered
  2. green-finned
  3. green-flag
  4. green-flags
  5. green-flies
  6. green-fly
  7. green-gage
  8. green-gages
  9. green-gedge
  10. green-gill
  11. green-gilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: green-fly (page history and authors); greenfly (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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