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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Any pupiparous dipterous insect, as a bee-louse or sheep-tick.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals

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  1. dipterous insect
  1. two-winged insects
  1. dipteran
  1. dipteron

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  1. sheep tick
  1. horse tick
  1. melophagus ovinus
  1. sheep ked
  1. hippobosca equina
  1. horsefly

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  1. horse tick
  1. spider-fly
  1. greenfly

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