English[edit]
Cranefly.
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
crane + fly
Pronunciation[edit]
cranefly (plural craneflies)
- Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
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Translations[edit]
fly of the suborder Tipulomorpha
- Chinese: 大蚊 (zh)
- Cornish: kelyonen aran f
- Danish: stankelben n
- Dutch: langpootmug (nl) f
- Esperanto: tipolo (eo)
- Finnish: vaaksiainen (fi)
- French: tipule (fr) f
- German: Schnake (de) (especially Southern Germany), Gelse (de) f (Austria), Mücke (de) f (universal, but usually a smaller one), Schneider (de) m (Northern Rhineland, Münsterland, Southern Lower Saxony), Schuster (de) m (far Northern Germany)
- Greek: αλογατάκι (el) n (alogatáki)
- Icelandic: hrossafluga f
- Irish: snáthaid an diabhail f, snáthaid an phúca f, ruamann na gcoinneal m, galán m
- Italian: tipula f
- Japanese: ガガンボ (gaganbo)
- Korean: 각다귀 (gakdagwi)
- Low German:
- German Low German: Schooster m, Snieder m, Snaak f
- Macedonian: долго́ножец m (dolgónožec)
- Manx: bwoid skeddan m
- Maori: pekepeke-haratua, matua waeroa
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тэмээлзгэнэ (mn) (temeelzgene)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡᠯᠵᠢᠭᠡᠨᠡ (temegelǰigen-e)
- Navajo: tsʼíʼii jáádnézí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stankelbein n
- Polish: koziułka f, komarnica f, pytloch m
- Portuguese: pernilongo (pt) m
- Romansch: tipla f
- Russian: долгоно́жка (ru) f (dolgonóžka)
- Scots: Willie-long-legs (Orkney)
- Spanish: típula (es) f, zancudo (es) m
- Swedish: harkrank (sv) c, pappa långben (sv) c
- Ukrainian: довгоніжка f (dovhonižka), довгоніг m (dovhonih)
- Welsh: pryf teiliwr m, pryf cannwyll m
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