the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus bovis (ox-fly) > larva of (2)
The maggot producing tumours of this kind: = warble, n.2 3.
(a) the larva of the ox-warble fly; (b) (more fully ox-botfly) the ox-warble fly (see ox-warble n. (a)).