bee fly

English

Bee fly on a Daffodil

Alternative forms

• bee-fly

Etymology

From bee +‎ fly. Compare Icelandic býfluga.

Noun

bee fly (plural bee flies)

1. Any of the flies in the family Bombyliidae, with adults that look like bumblebees and larvae that are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other insects.

Translations

bee fly

• Azerbaijani: vızıldayan
• Bengali: ভোমরা মাছি (bhōmra machi)
• Catalan: bombílid m
• Dutch: wolzwever (nl) m
• Esperanto: bombilio
• French: bombyle (fr) f
• Georgian: ბზუალას (bzualas)
• German: Wollschweber m
• Hungarian: pöszörlégy
• Indonesian: lalat lebah
• Irish: bheach-chuil f
• Italian: bombilio m
• Japanese: 吊虻 (ツリアブ, tsuriabu)
• Korean: 재니등에 (jaenideung'e)
• Kyrgyz: ызылдак (ızıldak)
• Lithuanian: musė zvimbeklė f
• Malay: lalat lebah
• Navajo: tsísʼnági átʼéhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humleflue m or f

  Nynorsk: humlefluge f

• Polish: bjanka f
• Russian: жужжа́ло (ru) n (žužžálo), муха-жужжало n (muxa-žužžalo)
• Somali: dhurde
• Spanish: bombílido m

Anagrams

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