NOUN | animal | botfly | stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals |
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Sounds | baa'tflay. | |
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Rhymes | alkali ... walleye: 28 rhymes with lay... |
Meaning | stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals. | |
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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 |
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