English
Etymology
From crane (“bird”) + fly, from the resemblance of the insect's long, spindly legs to those of a crane.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
- Synonyms: (UK) daddy longlegs, (US) gullywhumper, (US) gollywhopper, (US) mosquito hawk, (US) mosquito-eater
Coordinate terms
Translations
fly of the suborder Tipulomorpha
- Arabic: طَيْثَار m (ṭayṯār)
- Chinese: 大蚊 (zh)
- Cornish: kelyonen aran f
- Czech: tiplice 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 (ja) (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
- Portuguese: pernilongo (pt) m, melga (pt) f, tira-olhos m, mosquito-tira-olhos m
- Romansch: tipla f
- Russian: долгоно́жка (ru) f (dolgonóžka)
- Scots: Willie-long-legs (Orkney)
- Slovak: tipuľa f
- 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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