hanging fly

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   any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae

   Broadermecopteran

   Part ofBittacidae

Questions about hanging fly

What does hanging fly mean?

hanging fly means "any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae".

Is hanging fly a common word?

hanging fly 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.