Blowfly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several flies of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs in carcasses or carrion or in open sores and wounds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or in open wounds.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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 under flesh-fly.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
  • n. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
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