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lantern fly

lantern fly is the alternative form of lanternfly.

Meaning of lanternfly

Noun

lanternfly (plural lanternflies)

  1. Any of various insects in the family Fulgoridae, especially in the genera Fulgora and Pyrops, with brilliant coloration.

Forms of lantern fly

plurallantern flies

Questions about lantern fly

What is lantern fly the alternative form of?
Lantern fly is the alternative form of lanternfly.

Words near lantern fly in the dictionary

  1. Lantern Festivals
  2. lantern fish
  3. lantern flies
  4. lantern flower
  5. lantern flowers
  6. lantern fly
  7. lantern gear
  8. lantern gears
  9. lantern jaw
  10. lantern jawed
  11. lantern jaws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lantern fly (page history and authors); lanternfly (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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