Usually means: Large, long-legged flying insect.
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  1. crane fly: Merriam-Webster
  2. crane fly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crane fly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crane fly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crane fly: Vocabulary.com
  6. crane fly: Wordnik
  7. crane fly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crane fly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. crane fly: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Crane fly, crane-fly, crane fly: Dictionary.com
  11. Crane-fly, Crane fly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. crane fly: Rhymezone
  13. crane-fly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. crane fly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. crane fly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. crane fly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. crane fly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. crane fly: Wiktionary

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  1. Crane-fly, crane fly: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Crane fly)

noun:  Alternative form of cranefly [Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.]

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