stalk-eyed fly

noun

A fly of the family Diopsidae.

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Meanings

nounstalk-eyed fly (plural stalk-eyed flies)

plural stalk-eyed flies

  1. A fly of the family Diopsidae.

    In at least one other arthropod, the Stalk-eyed fly, it is the sheer length of the stalks themselves, which can be longer than the animal's body, which make the male attractive to females.

    2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107
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