Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various four-winged insects of the order Trichoptera, found near lakes and streams.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An adult or imago of one of the neuropterous insects of the suborder Trichoptera, and especially of the family Phryganeidæ. In Great Britain the insect is also called
May-fly , from the usual time of its appearance; but in the United States the May-fly is one of the Ephemeridæ. Seecaddis-worm .
Wiktionary
- n. any insect, of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings; they are found near lakes and streams
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as caddice fly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae
- n. small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae
Etymologies
- Perhaps from obsolete cad (influenced by caddis), variant of cod2 (from the tube in which the larva lives). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In a sense those laboring to save one square inch of wilderness, rescue one caddis fly larva from pollutants, were in the deepest sense public servants.”
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treeseed Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1787
: any of an order (Trichoptera) of insects with four membranous usually hairy wings, vestigial mouthparts, slender many-jointed antennae, and aquatic larvae
Caddis fly larvae are among the fanciful creatures that the central figure Tom encounters in the under water world in Charles Kingsley's novel Water Babies, 1937 Jan 28, 2008