corydalus cornutus

1. 1.

   large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait

   Synonymsdobsondobsonflydobson fly

   Broaderneuropteron

   Part ofCorydalus

Questions about corydalus cornutus

What does corydalus cornutus mean?

corydalus cornutus means "large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait".

What is another word for corydalus cornutus?

Close synonyms include dobson, dobsonfly, dobson fly. 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 corydalus cornutus a common word?

corydalus cornutus 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.