dayfly

1. 1.

   slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

   Synonymsmayflyshadfly

   Broaderephemerid

   Part ofEphemeridae

Other forms of dayfly

plural

dayflies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dayfly

What does dayfly mean?

dayfly means "slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days".

How many syllables are in dayfly?

dayfly has 2 syllables: day-fly. The stress falls on "day".

What is another word for dayfly?

Close synonyms include mayfly, shadfly. 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 dayfly a common word?

dayfly 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.