单词 | botfly |
释义 | botfly (once / 407563 pages) n WORD FAMILY botfly: botflies USAGE EXAMPLESCuterebra are commonly called rodent botflies because their natural hosts are small rodents and rabbits. Seattle Times(Nov 17, 2014) The suspect fly is cuterebra, or botfly, which exists in North and South America and is a large bee-like fly. Seattle Times(Nov 17, 2014) By the next day, it was covered in green botflies and thousands of white eggs. Seattle Times(Jun 20, 2012) n stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals Hypo|Hyper Gasterophilus intestinalis, horse botfly parasitic chiefly on horses Dermatobia hominis, human botflylarge tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals Oestrus ovis, sheep botfly, sheep gadflylarvae are parasitic on sheep gadfly any of various large flies that annoy livestock |
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