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botfly
n.
horsefly
Botfly
The
Oestridae are a family of flies variously known as
bot flies,
warble flies,
heel flies,
gadflies, and similar names. Their
larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. The human botfly,
Dermatobia hominis, is the only species of bot fly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies do cause
myiasis in humans.
botfly
Noun
1. stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
(hypernym) gadfly
(hyponym) horse botfly, Gasterophilus intestinalis
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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