Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crane_fly

1 sense of crane fly

Sense 1
crane fly, daddy longlegs -- (long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)