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- noun Plural form of
greenfly .
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Examples
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A cloud of beetles and greenflies and a stench of rats rose into my face.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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A cloud of beetles and greenflies and a stench of rats rose into my face.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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She is referring to former state president P W Botha's darlings of the 1980, auxillary policemen popularly known at the time in black townships as "kitskonstabels" or "greenflies".
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Experts say the outbreaks of greenflies as well as blackflies have been caused by the cold winter which killed off high numbers of their predators and the unseasonably warm spring, which allowed the pests to breed uncontrollably.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There were literally thousands of tiny insects, similar to greenflies, everywhere we looked.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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