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CLEG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cleg mean?
• CLEG (noun)
The noun CLEG has 1 sense:
1. large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
Familiarity information: CLEG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cleg; clegg; horse fly; horsefly
Hypernyms ("cleg" is a kind of...):
gadfly (any of various large flies that annoy livestock)
Holonyms ("cleg" is a member of...):
family Tabanidae; Tabanidae (horseflies)
Context examples
'Twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That's the way he fell off the rocks.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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