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n. Any of numerous large flies of the family Tabanidae, the females of which suck the blood of various mammals.

n. Any of several medium- to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).

n. Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

n. The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

n. A hexachætous dipterous insect, as Tabanus bovinus and other species of the family Tabanidæ, of which the females have a piercing proboscis, and are extremely annoying to horses and cattle. Also called breeze, breeze-fly, and gadfly. See cuts under breeze and gadfly.

n. A pupiparous dipterous insect of the family Hippoboscidæ; a forest-fly or tick-fly. Also called horse-tick.

n. A dichætous dipterous insect of the family Œstridæ; a true bot-fly, as the horse-bot, Gasterophilus equi. See cut under bot-fly.

n. large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals

n. large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals

n. winged fly parasitic on horses

"The common horsefly, which is so troublesome in the shady lanes of England, belongs to this same genus."

gadfly    louse fly    hippoboscid   

black horse-fly    mourning horse-fly   

forest fly    yellow fly    cleg    zimb    deer fly    Australia    italbrac    gadfly    March fly    stable fly