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BOTFLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("botfly" is a kind of...):
gadfly (any of various large flies that annoy livestock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "botfly"):
Gasterophilus intestinalis; horse botfly (parasitic chiefly on horses)
Dermatobia hominis; human botfly (large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals)
Oestrus ovis; sheep botfly; sheep gadfly (larvae are parasitic on sheep)
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