HyperDic: botfly

English > 1 sense of the word *botfly*:
NOUN	animal	botfly	stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals

botfly > pronunciation
Sounds	baa'tflay.
Rhymes	alkali ... walleye: 28 rhymes with lay...

English > *botfly*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals.
Narrower	horse botfly, Gasterophilus intestinalis	Parasitic chiefly on horses
	human botfly, Dermatobia hominis	large tropical American fly
	sheep botfly, sheep gadfly, Oestrus ovis	larvae are parasitic on sheep
Broader	gadfly	Any of various large flies that annoy livestock
Spanish	oestridae