Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beetfly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beet-fly
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.

Etymology

From beet + fly.

Inflected Forms

beetflies (plural)

Questions

What does beetfly mean?: Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.
Where does beetfly come from?: From beet + fly.

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