fly
noun
any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
flyless
-
a word derived from
fly.
Example Sentences
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This spring Iowa will mount an offensive against its flies, aiming to make the state as flyless as the moon.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Give him the ideal of cool, flyless cleanliness in a room.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort
And so we have evolved a cool, flyless place for our pans of milk, meats, cooked and uncooked, fresh vegetables, cakes, pastry, etc.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
