Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several flies of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs in carcasses or carrion or in open sores and wounds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common name of Musca (Calliphora) vomitoria, Sarcophaga carnaria, and other species of dipterous insects, which deposit their eggs (flyblow) on flesh, and thus taint it. Also called flesh-fly. See cut under flesh-fly.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or in open wounds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ (called
flyblows andmaggots ) upon meat or other animal products.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
- n. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
Examples
“The bovine scatology from the dems on lowering deficit, saving medicare, and lowering health care costs would make a blowfly wince.”
“And lest I forget, the worst of all pests: the Australian blowfly, an invasive introduced species.”
“If the scientist from the sci-fi gem The Fly had fused himself with an Aussie blowfly, he would have been unstoppable.”
“A blowfly crawled across one of his flared sideburns.”
“The Senator paused to snap a blowfly out of the air with his long, sticky tongue, then, chewing, continued.”
“He still regards it as preposterous that 90 percent of people studying to be law-enforcement agents have never seen a corpse, or that, until the Body Farm, entomologists knew far too little about the remarkable parade of insects after death: from blowfly to maggot to, carpet beetle.”
“At 5 p.m. the police took a detailed series of photographs, which showed the bodies covered with centimeter - long blowfly larvae.”
“I fell asleep to the buzz of mosquitoes and a persistent blowfly.”
“Well, actually, you see, it is, as I slice the pocket open to reveal the huge blowfly maggot that is often found in such pockets in deer throats.”
“Symondson gave starved individuals of P. melanarius either a dead slug of one of 3 species or blowfly maggots and monitored the beetles' mortality afterwards.”
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