greenfly
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editNoun
editgreenfly (plural greenflies or greenfly)
- Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
- These bats prey on greenfly.
- Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth
- especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid
- Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly
- Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead
- Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris)
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edit- greenfly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “greenfly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “greenfly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.