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BLOWFLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blowfly mean?
• BLOWFLY (noun)
The noun BLOWFLY has 1 sense:
1. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
Familiarity information: BLOWFLY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
blow fly; blowfly
Hypernyms ("blowfly" is a kind of...):
fly (two-winged insects characterized by active flight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blowfly"):
bluebottle; Calliphora vicina (blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight)
greenbottle; greenbottle fly (blowfly with brilliant coppery green body)
Holonyms ("blowfly" is a member of...):
Calliphora; genus Calliphora (type genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies)
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