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muck flies

muck flies is the plural of muck fly.

Meaning of muck fly

Noun

muck fly (plural muck flies)

  1. (obsolete) A fly found on, or associated with, dirt or dung.
    • [T]he naturalist […] next appealed to the patron's approbation for a curious disquisition he had made, touching the procreation of muck flies, in which he had laid down a curious method of collecting, preserving and hatching the eggs of these insects, even in the winter, by certain modifications of...1751, Tobias Smollett, chapter 103, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, volume IV

Questions about muck flies

What is muck flies the plural of?
Muck flies is the plural of muck fly.

Words near muck flies in the dictionary

  1. mucivorous
  2. muck
  3. muck about
  4. muck and bullets
  5. muck around
  6. muck flies
  7. muck fly
  8. muck in
  9. muck out
  10. muck spreader
  11. muck spreaders

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