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marchfly

marchfly is the alternative form of March fly.

Meaning of March fly

Noun

March fly (plural March flies)

  1. Any member of the family Bibionidae of dark hairy flies.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the bloodsucking horseflies of family Tabanidae.
    • Leo crushed a couple of March flies to death on his splendid mahogany thigh and looked at her speculatively.1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 130
  3. Tipula hortulana (syn. Bibio hortulanus), now of family Tipulidae of crane flies.

Noun capitalized: Marchfly

Marchfly (plural Marchflies)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of March fly.

Forms of marchfly

pluralmarchflies
pluralMarchflies

Questions about marchfly

What is marchfly the alternative form of?
Marchfly is the alternative form of March fly.
What part of speech is marchfly?
Marchfly is a noun.
What is the plural of marchfly?
The plural of marchfly is marchflies.

Words near marchfly in the dictionary

  1. Marchetti's constant
  2. Marchettis
  3. Marchewka
  4. Marchewkas
  5. marchflies
  6. marchfly
  7. Marchi
  8. Marchiafava-Bignami disease
  9. Marchiafava–Micheli syndrome
  10. Marchigiano-
  11. Marchigue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marchfly (page history and authors); Marchfly (page history and authors); March fly (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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