ERISTALIS

Definition: ERISTALIS

ERISTALIS

Noun

1. A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ERISTALIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Eristalis \E*ris"ta*lis\, noun. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: ERISTALIS

English words defined with "ERISTALIS": Drone fly ♦ Rat-tailed larva. (references)

Expression using "ERISTALIS": Eristalis tenax. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "ERISTALIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		螚 (Eristalis tenax, farm, village). (various references)

Pig Latin		eristalisay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "ERISTALIS" (pronounced 'E*ris"ta*lis'): Acropolis, Amaryllis, Anolis, Caulis, Chablis, Challis, Chrysalis, Digitalis, Eblis, Eolis, Epulis, Felis, fleur-de-lis, Hamamelis, Hemerocallis, Machicoulis, megalopolis, Megapolis, metropolis, Mirabilis, Necropolis, Oxalis, Peplis, Siphilis, syphilis, tallis, torticollis, trellis. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: serialist.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: realists, saltiers, saltires, satirise.
	-2 letters: airiest, airless, artless, laities, lasters, liaises, listers, realist, relists, resails, retails, sailers, salters, saltier, salties, saltire, satires, serails, serials, silesia, siltier, slaters, slatier, tailers.
	-3 letters: airest, aisles, alerts, alters, ariels, arises, artels, assert, asters, estral, irises, islets, istles, lasers, lassie, laster, leasts, liaise, lister, liters, litres, raises, rassle.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: aerialists, serialists, solitaires, solitaries.
	+2 letters: clavierists, liberalists, literalisms, literalists, militarises, palmistries, peristalsis, rascalities, recitalists, relativisms, relativists, revitalises, revivalists, salubrities, stabilizers, trailerists, trivialises.
	+3 letters: antirealisms, antirealists, artillerists, bristletails, clarinetists, clericalists, criticalness, dilatoriness, disrelations, epistolaries, immortalises, imperialists, insularities, internalises, literariness, materialises, materialisms, materialists, memorialists, orientalisms, orientalists, osmolarities, plasticizers, pleinairists, rationalises, regionalists, restabilizes, secularistic, secularities, semitrailers, shrievalties, similarities, solidarities, solitariness, surrealistic, universalist, urolithiases.
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