Home › Words › B › blackflyblackflyblackfly means A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, blackfly ranks #2,165 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom black + fly.nounA black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.whitefly 66% match — Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest vs blackfly →aphid 66% match — A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian. vs blackfly →beetfly 66% match — Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens. vs blackfly →flybane 65% match — Any sessile organism thought to be harmful to or deterrent of flies.; Certain catchflies of the genus Silene. vs blackfly →aphis 62% match — An aphid. vs blackfly →greenbug 62% match — The wheat aphid (Schizaphis graminum). vs blackfly →dogfly 62% match — A bloodsucking fly, Stomoxys calcitrans; stablefly. vs blackfly →dorfly 60% match — A biting insect, such as a horse-fly or gad-fly, that attacks livestock. vs blackfly →