dobsonflies
Meaning of dobsonflies
plural noun
a large grey North American winged insect related to the alderflies. Its predatory aquatic larva (the hellgrammite) is often used as fishing bait.
early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Information about dobsonflies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of dobsonflies is: dobsonfly.
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Hyphenation of dobsonflies
dob-son-flies
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- dobsonflies is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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