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WARBLE FLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does warble fly mean?
• WARBLE FLY (noun)
The noun WARBLE FLY has 1 sense:
1. hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle
Familiarity information: WARBLE FLY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("warble fly" is a kind of...):
gadfly (any of various large flies that annoy livestock)
Holonyms ("warble fly" is a member of...):
genus Hypoderma; Hypoderma (in some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies)
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