harvest fly

1. 1.

   its distinctive song is heard during July and August

   Synonymsdog-day cicada

   Broadercicada

   Part ofTibicen

Questions about harvest fly

What does harvest fly mean?

harvest fly means "its distinctive song is heard during July and August".

What is another word for harvest fly?

Close synonyms include dog-day cicada. 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 harvest fly a common word?

harvest 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.