thunderfly

Etymology

From thunder + fly.

thunderfly means any insect of the genus Thrips. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

noun

Any insect of the genus Thrips.“Meanwhile at the Conference Centre three fire-engines have screamed up. Not, for once, a student smoking in a bedroom: this time a cloud of thunderflies has chosen to swarm on the pearly-pink just-warm globe of a smoke-detector.”