cranefly

English

Cranefly.

Alternative forms

• crane-fly, crane fly

Etymology

crane +‎ fly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪnˌflaɪ/

Noun

cranefly (plural craneflies)

1. Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.

Synonyms

• (UK) daddy longlegs
• (US) gullywhumper, gollywhopper, mosquito hawk

Coordinate terms

• leatherjacket (cranefly larva)

Translations

fly of the suborder Tipulomorpha

• Chinese: 大蚊 (zh)
• Cornish: kelyonen aran f
• Danish: stankelben n
• Dutch: langpootmug (nl) f
• Esperanto: tipolo (eo)
• Finnish: vaaksiainen (fi)
• French: tipule (fr) f
• German: Schnake (de) (especially Southern Germany), Gelse (de) f (Austria), Mücke (de) f (universal, but usually a smaller one), Schneider (de) m (Northern Rhineland, Münsterland, Southern Lower Saxony), Schuster (de) m (far Northern Germany)
• Greek: αλογατάκι (el) n (alogatáki)
• Icelandic: hrossafluga f
• Irish: snáthaid an diabhail f, snáthaid an phúca f, ruamann na gcoinneal m, galán m
• Italian: tipula f
• Japanese: ガガンボ (gaganbo)
• Korean: 각다귀 (gakdagwi)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Schooster m, Snieder m, Snaak f

• Macedonian: долго́ножец m (dolgónožec)
• Manx: bwoid skeddan m
• Maori: pekepeke-haratua, matua waeroa
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тэмээлзгэнэ (mn) (temeelzgene)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡᠯᠵᠢᠭᠡᠨ᠎ᠡ (temegelǰigen-e)

• Navajo: tsʼíʼii jáádnézí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stankelbein n

• Polish: koziułka f, komarnica f, pytloch m
• Portuguese: pernilongo (pt) m
• Romansch: tipla f
• Russian: долгоно́жка (ru) f (dolgonóžka)
• Scots: Willie-long-legs (Orkney)
• Spanish: típula (es) f, zancudo (es) m
• Swedish: harkrank (sv) c, pappa långben (sv) c
• Ukrainian: довгоніжка f (dovhonižka), довгоніг m (dovhonih)
• Welsh: pryf teiliwr m, pryf cannwyll m

Further reading

• Cranefly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia