hoverfly

See also: hover-fly

English

A marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on a flower.

Alternative forms

hover-fly, hover fly

Etymology

hover +‎ fly

Noun

hoverfly (plural hoverflies)

Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
Synonyms: flower fly, flower-fly

Translations

fly in the family Syrphidae

Arabic: ذُبَاب حَوَّام (ḏubāb ḥawwām), ذُبَاب الزُّهُور (ḏubāb az-zuhūr), سِرْفَة f (sirfa)
Belarusian: журчалка f (žurčalka)
Bulgarian: цветарка f (cvetarka)
Czech: pestřenka f, vosička f
Dutch: zweefvlieg (nl)
Esperanto: sirfedo
Faroese: blómufluga f
Finnish: kukkakärpänen
French: syrphe (fr) m
German: Schwebfliege (de) f
Hungarian: zengőlégy
Italian: sirfidi m
Japanese: 花虻 (ハナアブ, hanaabu)
Korean: 꽃등에과 (kkotdeung'egwa)
Lithuanian: žiedmusė f
Navajo: tséʼédǫ́ʼii dishooí
Polish: bzyg (pl) m
Russian: журча́лка (ru) f (žurčálka)
Serbo-Croatian: osolika muha f
Slovene: trepetavka f
Spanish: sírfido m
Swedish: blomfluga (sv) c
Ukrainian: дзюрча́лка f (dzjurčálka)

References

“hoverfly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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