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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fly paper en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of flypaper.
    alt of flypaper
    • My wife Lara and I try to keep the doors and windows shut, and from the beams we hang dozens of fly papers, which quickly become covered in a revolting mass of struggling, sticky flies. 2014, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow, page 58:
    • They had even hung fly paper but the flies did not go near it! 2012, Shelley LeRoux, The Secret Ingredient:
    • Create your own homemade fly paper and hang near doorways or other areas where flies congregate. 2014, Dionna Ford, Mandy O'Brien, Homemade Cleaners:

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