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stalk-eyed flies

stalk-eyed flies is the plural of stalk-eyed fly.

Meaning of stalk-eyed fly

Noun

stalk-eyed fly (plural stalk-eyed flies)

  1. A fly of the family Diopsidae.
    • In at least one other arthropod, the Stalk-eyed fly, it is the sheer length of the stalks themselves, which can be longer than the animal's body, which make the male attractive to females.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107

Questions about stalk-eyed flies

What is stalk-eyed flies the plural of?
Stalk-eyed flies is the plural of stalk-eyed fly.

Words near stalk-eyed flies in the dictionary

  1. Stalins
  2. Stalinsk
  3. stalk
  4. stalk-cutter
  5. stalk-eyed
  6. stalk-eyed flies
  7. stalk-eyed fly
  8. stalkable
  9. stalkarazzi
  10. stalkarazzo
  11. stalkball

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