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thunderflies

thunderflies is the plural of thunderfly.

Meaning of thunderfly

Noun

thunderfly (plural thunderflies)

  1. Any insect of the genus Thrips.
    • Meanwhile at the Conference Centre three fire-engines have screamed up. Not, for once, a student smoking in a bedroom: this time a cloud of thunderflies has chosen to swarm on the pearly-pink just-warm globe of a smoke-detector.1987, Fleur Adcock, “Wildlife”, in Gillian Clarke, editor, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1987/88, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    thunderbug

Questions about thunderflies

What is thunderflies the plural of?
Thunderflies is the plural of thunderfly.

Words near thunderflies in the dictionary

  1. thunderest
  2. thundereth
  3. thunderfish
  4. thunderflash
  5. thunderflashes
  6. thunderflies
  7. thunderfly
  8. thunderful
  9. thundergod
  10. thundergods
  11. thundergust

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