Usually means: Aquatic insect, larvae predatory stage.
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  6. alderfly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (alderfly)

noun:  A member of any one of the 66 species of the family Sialidae of megalopteran insects, each specimen of which has a body length not exceeding one inch and possesses long filamentous antennae and four large dark wings.
noun:  (fishing) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

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