dobson
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dob·son
(dŏb′sən)n.
See hellgrammite.
[Probably from the name Dobson.]
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dobson
(ˈdɒbsən)n
(Animals) another name for hellgrammite
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dob•son
(ˈdɒb sən)n.
1. a dobsonfly.
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Noun | 1. | dobson - large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
2. | dobson - large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect - insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
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