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sawfly

sawfly noun: any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

Noun

sawfly (plural sawflies)

  1. Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

sawfly meaning in Tamil

sawfly in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பூச்சிகளில், இது முக்கியமானதொரு இனமாகும்

Forms of sawfly

pluralsawflies

Origin of sawfly

From saw + fly.

Words formed from sawfly

Questions about sawfly

What does sawfly mean?
Sawfly means any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.
What is sawfly in Tamil?
Sawfly in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பூச்சிகளில், இது முக்கியமானதொரு இனமாகும். See Sawfly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sawfly?
Sawfly is a noun.
What is the plural of sawfly?
The plural of sawfly is sawflies.

Words near sawfly in the dictionary

  1. sawest
  2. saweth
  3. sawfish
  4. sawfishes
  5. sawflies
  6. sawfly
  7. Sawford
  8. Sawfords
  9. sawgrass
  10. sawgrasses
  11. sawgrinder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sawfly (page history and authors); sawfly (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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