Words that rhyme with horsefly

  • blowfly
    n 1: large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds [syn: blowfly, blow fly]
  • botfly
    n 1: stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
  • butterfly
    n 1: diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings 2: a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down [syn: butterfly, butterfly stroke] v 1: flutter like a butterfly 2: cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking; "butterflied shrimp" 3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash]
  • catchfly
    n 1: any plant of the genus Silene [syn: silene, campion, catchfly] 2: mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone [syn: lychnis, catchfly]
  • damselfly
    n 1: slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest
  • dragonfly
    n 1: slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. [syn: dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk]
  • firefly
    n 1: tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots [syn: firefly, fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca] 2: nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs [syn: firefly, lightning bug]
  • gadfly
    n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: any of various large flies that annoy livestock
  • greenfly
    n 1: greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
  • housefly
    n 1: common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases [syn: housefly, house fly, Musca domestica]
  • mayfly
    n 1: slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days [syn: mayfly, dayfly, shadfly]
  • sawfly
    n 1: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
  • shoofly
    n 1: an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen 2: a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
  • stonefly
    n 1: primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones [syn: stonefly, stone fly, plecopteran]
  • whitefly
    n 1: minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects
  • ai
    n 1: an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders [syn: Army Intelligence, AI] 2: the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; "workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots" [syn: artificial intelligence, AI] 3: a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot [syn: three-toed sloth, ai, Bradypus tridactylus] 4: the introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse [syn: artificial insemination, AI]
  • overfly
    v 1: fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus" [syn: pass over, overfly]
  • sandfly
    n 1: any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis [syn: sand fly, sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasii]
  • blackfly
    n 1: blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets [syn: blackfly, bean aphid, Aphis fabae] 2: small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals [syn: blackfly, black fly, buffalo gnat]
  • aye
  • barfly
  • ay
  • outfly
  • hoverfly
  • deerfly

See also horsefly definition and horsefly synonyms