Definition of Crane fly

1. Noun. Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.

Exact synonyms: Daddy Longlegs
Generic synonyms: Dipteran, Dipteron, Dipterous Insect, Two-winged Insects
Group relationships: Family Tipulidae, Tipulidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crane Fly

cranberry morphemes
cranberry sauce
cranberry tree
cranberrying
cranberrylike
crance
crances
cranch
cranched
cranches
cranching
crandallite
crane
crane's bill
crane flies
crane fly (current term)
craned
craneflies
cranefly
cranelike
cranequin
cranes
cranesbill
cranesbills
crang
crangs
crania
craniad
cranial
cranial arteritis

Literary usage of Crane fly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"NOTES ON THE SWARMING OF A SPECIES OF crane fly. BY CHAS. N. AINSLIE, WASHINGTON, DC The swarming habits of various families of flies, ..."

2. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The analysis is based chiefly on the movements of the wing of the common house-fly, the bluebottle-fly, the crane-fly, the bee, the humble-bee, the wasp, ..."

3. The Elements of Insect Anatomy: An Outline for the Use of Students in by John Henry Comstock, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1899)
"ANATOMY OF THE LARVA OF THE GIANT CRANE-FLY ... of the United States) an account of the anatomy of the larva of a crane-fly (Tipu- lidae) is presented for ..."

4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"SINGULAR mode of extrication of the Imago from the Pupa- case in a species of Crane-fly. —My attention was drawn, during the autumn, to some dipterous larra ..."

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