sand fly

Questions about sand fly

What is another word for sand fly?

It depends which sand fly you mean. In the sense “any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis”, the synonyms are sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasii. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 sand fly?

WordNet records no antonym for sand 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 sand 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 sand fly

• Full entry for sand flyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sand flyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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