eye fly en · NOUN
Meanings
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Any of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.
Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| eye flies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| eye-fly | alternative | lexicographic |