LOUSE FLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does louse fly mean? 

• LOUSE FLY (noun)
  The noun LOUSE FLY has 1 sense:

1. bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals

  Familiarity information: LOUSE FLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUSE FLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hippoboscid; louse fly

Hypernyms ("louse fly" is a kind of...):

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

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

Hippobosca equina; horse tick; horsefly (winged fly parasitic on horses)

Melophagus Ovinus; sheep-tick; sheep ked; sheep tick (wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle)

Holonyms ("louse fly" is a member of...):

family Hippoboscidae; Hippoboscidae (winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies)