Meanings
nouneye fly (plural eye flies)
plural eye flies · alternative eye-fly
- Any of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.First known use 19th c.
Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93Synonyms: eye gnat
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.
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eye gnat
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