flesh fly

Questions about flesh fly

What is another word for flesh fly?

It depends which flesh fly you mean. In the sense “fly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals”, the synonyms are Sarcophaga carnaria. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of flesh fly?

WordNet records no antonym for flesh fly. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for flesh fly come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of flesh fly

• Full entry for flesh flyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for flesh flyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.