Aquatic larvae often used as bait

• Large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An insect of the subfamily ''(taxlink Corydalinae subfamily noshow=1)'' whose males have long mandibles, found in the Americas and related most closely to the fishfly.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dobsonflies are a subfamily of insects , Corydalinae , part of the Megalopteran family Corydalidae . The larvae (commonly called hellgrammites ) are aquatic , living in streams , and the adults are often found along streams as well. The nine genera of dobsonflies ...

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n. large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait [syn: dobson , dobson fly , Corydalus cornutus ]