alderfly

Questions about alderfly

What does alderfly mean?

alderfly means "dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae".

How many syllables are in alderfly?

alderfly has 3 syllables and divides as al-der-fly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alderfly?

Close synonyms include alder fly, Sialis lutaria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alderfly a common word?

alderfly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.