A type of fly insect that is gray in color, or an artificial fishing lure designed to resemble such a fly.
Compound word from gray plus fly, describing either the natural insect or the fishing lure tied to imitate it. Fishing terminology where lure colors and designs are named after their appearance.
Fly fishers name their lures after the insects they mimic, creating a whole poetic vocabulary—'grayfly,' 'mosquito,' 'mayfly'—that connects fishing art to entomology!
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