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Blowfly Moderate

Blowfly has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.

See Also
family blowflies flyblown bluebottle blowie greenbottle calliphorin mango fly
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
fly
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bluebottle greenbottle
Rhyming Words
fly oxfly refly mcfly befly barfly liefly naifly owlfly selfly wolfly apefly gadfly mayfly waffly bobfly dayfly ruffly medfly chefly
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