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Blowfly

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Noun

1. blow fly, blowfly

large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blowfly

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noun plural -flies
any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae
. Also called: bluebottle

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Blowfly

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nounWord forms: plural ˈblowˌflies
any of a family (Calliphoridae) of dipterous flies that deposit eggs or maggots in carrion or meat, or in wounds or on the skin

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blowfly

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n.
Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that have a metallic blue, green, or black body and deposit their eggs in carcasses or carrion or in open sores and wounds.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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