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Noun: stonefly  'stown`flI
  1. Primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
    - stone fly, plecopteran

Derived forms: stoneflies

Type of: insect

Part of: order Plecoptera, Plecoptera

Encyclopedia: Stonefly

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stonecrop
stonecrop family
stonecutter
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stone-dead
stone-deaf
stoneface
stone-face
stonefish
stonefly
stone-gray
stone-grey
Stonehenge
stoneless
stonelike
stonemason
stoner
stoneroot
stone-root
stone's throw