Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. any fly, of the family Sarcophagidae, that feed on carrion
Examples
“Brecht's shark with its pretty teeth, Ionesco's thunder - ing hippopotamus, Jonson's flesh-fly buzzing around the dying fox, and, most terrible of all, the Yahoo.”
“[422-7] The flesh-fly is the blow-fly, which lays its eggs in meat and helps its decay.”
“The flesh-fly instead of laying eggs deposits the living larvæ upon meat wherever it is accessible, and as these develop with astonishing rapidity they are able to consume large quantities of flesh in a remarkably short time.”
“If any one has never seen a carcass rapidly disappearing under the steady operations of the larvae of the flesh-fly, he has yet to learn why some flies were made.”
“Such is the habit of the great flesh-fly (Sarcophaga), of some allied genera (Tachina, etc.) whose larvae live as parasites on other insects, and occasionally of the”
“The flesh-fly laying its eggs on the carrion-flower is only a striking instance of the mistakes all instincts are liable to, never more markedly than in the inherited tendency to fits of frenzied excitement: the feeling is frequently excited by the wrong object, and explodes at inopportune moments.”
“In the lower orders this increase is especially rapid, a single flesh-fly (Musca carnaria) producing 20,000 larvae, and these growing so quickly that they reach their full size in five days; hence the great”
“As the instinct of the flesh-fly directs her to a putrid carcass to deposit her eggs, that her offspring may have their proper food, so the moth seeks the hive containing combs, and where its natural food is at hand to furnish a supply.”
“So the putrid smell of the stapelia, or carrion-flower, allures the large flesh-fly to deposit its young worms on its beautiful petals, which perish there for want of nourishment.”
“No, that must be allow'd — For my pari, i were Ml for the benefit of mankind, I'd have noil to do with them, for they are aa indifferent to me a sparrow or a flesh-fly.”
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Yuck
Icky, ooey things, grossness or sundry objectionables.
quaggy, gurry, trepan, head cheese, bodewash, casu marzu, lardon, balut, nidhoggr, tarantelli, dairy group, vesiga and 58 more...
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vanderpink Ha very ha.
*starts keeping a closer eye on Mr Leatherears* Apr 3, 2011
bilby Spike in usage around 1820. The plot thickens! I suspect Duffel van der Pinkenhosen of having something to do with it. Apr 3, 2011