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caddice fly |
caddice-fly |
caddie |
caddis |
caddis fly |
caddis-fly
| caddisfly
| caddish
| caddisworm
| caddo
| caddoan
caddis-fly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun caddis-fly has 1 sense
- caddis-fly(n = noun.animal) caddice fly, caddice-fly, caddis fly - small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae; Array is a kind of trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect
OXFORD DICTIONARY
caddis-fly, n. (pl. -flies) any small hairy-winged nocturnal insect of the order Trichoptera, living near water.
Etymology
17th c.: orig. unkn.
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