greenfly
noun
greenfly is a noun meaning “Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-F-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of greenfly is greenflies.
What does greenfly mean?
noun
- 1
Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
- 2
Especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid.
- 3
Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly.
- 4
Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead.
- 5
Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce greenfly?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-greenfly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of greenfly
- greenflies plural
- green-fly
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is greenfly?
Greenfly appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does greenfly come from?
From green + fly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).