BOTFLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does botfly mean? 

• BOTFLY (noun)
  The noun BOTFLY has 1 sense:

1. stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals

  Familiarity information: BOTFLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTFLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

gadfly (any of various large flies that annoy livestock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "botfly"):

Gasterophilus intestinalis; horse botfly (parasitic chiefly on horses)

Dermatobia hominis; human botfly (large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals)

Oestrus ovis; sheep botfly; sheep gadfly (larvae are parasitic on sheep)