sandfly

Questions about sandfly

What does sandfly mean?

sandfly means "any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis".

How many syllables are in sandfly?

sandfly has 2 syllables: sand-fly. The stress falls on "sand".

What is another word for sandfly?

Close synonyms include sand fly, Phlebotomus papatasii. 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 sandfly a common word?

sandfly 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.