Usually means: Biting fly, painful, blood-sucking.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. deerfly: Merriam-Webster
  2. deerfly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deerfly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deerfly: Wiktionary
  5. deerfly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. deerfly: Dictionary.com
  7. Deerfly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. deerfly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deerfly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deerfly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deerfly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deerfly)

▸ noun:  Any of various species of fly which feed on deer, principally in genus Chrysops.

Similar:
deer fly, lake fly, fishfly, dipterid, dance fly, deuterophlebiid, drain fly, frit fly, horsefly, dipteran, more...

Opposite:
non-biting fly, horsefly, housefly

Types:
biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, more...

Phrases:
deerfly fever, more...

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Similar:
deer fly, lake fly, fishfly, dipterid, dance fly, deuterophlebiid, drain fly, frit fly, horsefly, dipteran, more...

Opposite:
non-biting fly, horsefly, housefly

Types:
biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, more...

Phrases:
deerfly fever, more...



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