Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that have a metallic blue, green, or black body and deposit their eggs in carcasses or carrion or in open sores and wounds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 underflesh-fly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
flies of the familyCalliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or in open wounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
- noun large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
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Examples
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The bovine scatology from the dems on lowering deficit, saving medicare, and lowering health care costs would make a blowfly wince.
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And lest I forget, the worst of all pests: the Australian blowfly, an invasive introduced species.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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If the scientist from the sci-fi gem The Fly had fused himself with an Aussie blowfly, he would have been unstoppable.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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And lest I forget, the worst of all pests: the Australian blowfly, an invasive introduced species.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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If the scientist from the sci-fi gem The Fly had fused himself with an Aussie blowfly, he would have been unstoppable.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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If the scientist from the sci-fi gem The Fly had fused himself with an Aussie blowfly, he would have been unstoppable.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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And lest I forget, the worst of all pests: the Australian blowfly, an invasive introduced species.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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A blowfly crawled across one of his flared sideburns.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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A blowfly crawled across one of his flared sideburns.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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A blowfly crawled across one of his flared sideburns.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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