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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An important genus of anthomyiid flies which contains a number of European and American species injurious to agriculture, as the seed-corn maggot, Pegomya fusciceps, the beet-leaf miner, P. vicina, and others. Also called Pegomyia.

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