HELLGRAMMIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hellgrammiate mean? 

• HELLGRAMMIATE (noun)
  The noun HELLGRAMMIATE has 1 sense:

1. large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait

  Familiarity information: HELLGRAMMIATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELLGRAMMIATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dobson; hellgrammiate

Hypernyms ("hellgrammiate" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("hellgrammiate" is a member of...):

Corydalis; Corydalus; genus Corydalis; genus Corydalus (type genus of the Corydalidae)