horse botfly

horse botfly
noun
parasitic chiefly on horses
• Hypernyms: ↑botfly
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gasterophilus, ↑genus Gasterophilus

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noun
: any of several botflies chiefly attacking horses; especially : a cosmopolitan cloudy-winged form (Gasterophilus intestinalis) that glues its eggs to the hairs especially of the forelegs whence they are taken into the mouth where they hatch into young bots and pass into the stomach and become attached to the lining

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horse botfly,
any one of several kinds of botflies whose larvae live in the stomachs of horses. The females lay their eggs on the hair of the horse's legs, his throat, and mouth.

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