hoverfly

See also: hover-fly

English

A marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on a flower.

Alternative forms

• hover-fly, hover fly

Etymology

From hover +‎ fly.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌ.vɚˌflaɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hoverfly (plural hoverflies)

1. 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
• Ido: sirfido
• Italian: sirfidi m
• Japanese: 花虻 (ハナアブ, hanaabu)
• Korean: 꽃등에과 (kkotdeung'egwa)
• Lithuanian: žiedmusė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Stahflege f

• Māori: ngaro tamumu
• Navajo: tséʼédǫ́ʼii dishooí
• Polish: bzyg (pl) m
• Portuguese: mosca-das-flores f
• Russian: журча́лка (ru) f (žurčálka)
• Serbo-Croatian: osolika muha f
• Slovene: trepetavka f
• Spanish: sírfido m
• Swedish: blomfluga (sv) c
• Tamil: மிதவை ஈ (mitavai ī)
• Ukrainian: дзюрча́лка f (dzjurčálka)

References

• “hoverfly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.