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flymph
 n.— «Tie the fly on a nymph hook with a tail and you have what some refer to as a flymph.» —“Fishing: Flies for early season trout” by Bill Thompson Conway Daily Sun (North Conway, New Hampshire) Apr. 27, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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