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

2 senses of dobson

Sense 1
hellgrammiate, dobson -- (large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait)
       => 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)

Sense 2
dobson, dobsonfly, dobson fly, Corydalus cornutus -- (large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait)
       => neuropteron, neuropteran, neuropterous insect -- (insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins)