HORSE BOTFLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic chiefly on horses

Synonyms:

Gasterophilus intestinalis; horse botfly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("horse botfly" is a kind of...):

botfly (stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals)

Holonyms ("horse botfly" is a member of...):

Gasterophilus; genus Gasterophilus (type genus of the Gasterophilidae: horse botflies)

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