Crossword-Solution: BOTFLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Botfly | n. | A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BOTFLY”
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| Cattle parasite | 1 answer |
| Insect with parasitic larvae | 1 answer |
| stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | 1 answer |
| type of stout-bodied hairy fly | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with BOTFLY (5)
The new team which John had bought was hitched to the pole of the harvester, and as he drew them up, a botfly buzzed suddenly about the forelegs of the off-wheel horse.
But with this other, this man whose pale eyes shifted and darted like a botfly around a horse's ear, could she drink his counsel and remain undefiled? Joe thought it up and down as he worked in the field near the house that morning, and his face grew hot and his eyes grew fevered, and his resentment against Morgan rose in his throat.
Look up the story of the pupa of the house fly; the development and work of the botfly; of the ox-warble; of the tsetse fly.
Evidently a botfly was bothering Bill's front legs, for he threw his head down quickly, whereupon the youngster, holding tightly to this mane lock, slid down his neck and flopped to the ground.
These botfly boils tend to break down and discharge a sero-purulent fluid and it is supposed that the larva, when mature, escapes as a result of the disintegration of the tumor.
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Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).