Usually means: Large aquatic insect, formidable mandibles.
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  7. dobsonfly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (dobsonfly)

noun:  Any insect of the subfamily Corydalinae, whose males have long mandibles, found in the Americas and related most closely to the fishfly.

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