"soldier fly" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: soldier flies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} soldier fly (plural soldier flies)
  1. Any fly of the insect family Stratiomyidae, which resemble wasps. Derived forms: Brues' soldier fly, sugarcane soldier fly (alt: Inopus rubriceps) Translations (insect): Waffenfliege [feminine] (German), saighdiúir cuile [masculine] (Irish), львинка (lʹvinka) [feminine] (Russian), коловодниця (kolovodnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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