Mayfly is valid Scrabble Word

Is mayfly a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for MAYFLY in dictionary:

NOUN:

a short-lived insect that appears in May
a short-lived slender insect with delicate transparent wings and two or three long filaments on the tail. It lives close to water, where the aquatic larvae develop.
an artificial fishing fly made to resemble a mayfly.
short-lived aquatic insect
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a winged insect

Words related to MAYFLY

dayfly16 ephemerid17 mayflies16 shadfly17

How to use MAYFLY in a sentence

We constantly catch fish during the may-fly time with broken tackle in their mouths.
This means, of course, that there is a tremendous rise of fly early in June, with the inevitable slack time before and after the may-fly time.
The may-fly generally comes up on the higher reaches about the last week in May, or about June 1st, though at Fairford, lower down, it is a week earlier.
He found dark blue and red flies just as killing as the ordinary may-fly.
But a couple of bachelors can be happy in an empty house, without servants and modern luxuries, as long as the may-fly lasts.
On this day, however, although the may-fly was not yet properly up, the big fish, which generally feed at night, had been brought on the rise by the sheep-washing.
At Fairford, where the stream is bigger, a five-pounder was taken during the last may-fly.
But the killing of trout is only a small part of the pleasure of being here when the may-fly is up.
The great question which every one asks in this part of the world in the first week in June is whether the may-fly is up.
The food of the whitefish in the lake is partly the worms bred from the eggs of a large fly resembling the May-fly of the East.

Similar words containing MAYF without suffix ly

mayfish18 mayflies16 dismayful18 mayfishes20 mayflower20 mayflowers21 dismayfully23

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