dronefly
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dronefly (plural droneflies)
- A European hoverfly, Eristalis tenax.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
- I took a large grey Drone-Fly, that had a large head, but a small a slender body in proportion to it, and cutting off its head, I fix'd it with the forepart or face upwards upon my Object Plate […].
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dronefly n (definite singular droneflyet, indefinite plural dronefly, definite plural droneflya or droneflyene)
- (aviation) a drone (pilotless aircraft)
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dronefly n (definite singular droneflyet, indefinite plural dronefly, definite plural droneflya)
- (aviation) a drone (pilotless aircraft)