| 单词 | crane fly |
| 释义 | crane fly (once / 656629 pages) n WORD FAMILY crane fly: crane flies USAGE EXAMPLESCrane flies enjoy a population boom in the United Kingdom every autumn—but unusual weather could make this year’s surge particularly big. National Geographic(Sep 12, 2016) The foxes were harvesting dew-laden crane flies from the grass with their tongues. The New Yorker(May 23, 2016) The familiar starling and the crane fly, which resembles a large mosquito and is also known as the leatherjacket, are introduced species. New York Times(Apr 27, 2015) n long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite Syn|Hyper daddy longlegs dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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