Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

march fly

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: march fly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the family Bibionidae of dark hairy flies.

noun

Any of the bloodsucking horseflies of family Tabanidae.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage

noun

Tipula hortulana (syn. Bibio hortulanus), now of family Tipulidae of crane flies.

noun

Alternative form of March fly.

Example Sentences

"Leo crushed a couple of March flies to death on his splendid mahogany thigh and looked at her speculatively."
"There were other, less pleasant forms of life, too; March flies with a spike-like proboscis I thought would have no trouble going through a pine board."

Usage

Inflected Forms

March flies (plural) marchfly (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

cleg deer fly forest fly gadfly yellow fly zimb

Questions

What does march fly mean?: Any member of the family Bibionidae of dark hairy flies.

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