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blackfly

noun

Etymology

From black + fly.

  1. derived from *plewk-✻
  2. inherited from *fleugǭ✻
  3. inherited from *fleugā✻
  4. inherited from flȳġe
  5. inherited from flye
  6. compounded as blackfly — “black + fly”

Definitions

  1. A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.

  2. Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blackfly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA