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horsefly

[ UK /hˈɔːsfla‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
  2. winged fly parasitic on horses

How To Use horsefly In A Sentence

  • For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • He watched her crash a magazine against the wall, trying to bat a horsefly.
  • The common horsefly, which is so troublesome in the shady lanes of England, belongs to this same genus. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • But tsetses are not the only dipteran foes of zebra and, since they are rarely found in the meadows of Hungary, Dr Horvath plumped for studying an almost equally obnoxious alternative: the horsefly. The Economist: Daily news and views
  • Papa circled the game like a parched horsefly, but his eyes were on Mama. Amaryllis in Blueberry
  • The "horsefly" or, in this case, my plastic bag and fishing rod, doesn't live in there. TheHorse.com News
  • The horsefly's larva spirals up and down through soft mud, creating a cylindrical column in which it pupates.
  • There are more than 3,000 varieties of horse flies such as greenhead horsefly, striped horse fly and black horsefly found all over the world. Undefined
  • The coleoptera are, without exception, devoid of stings; the diptera have the sting in front, as the fly, the horsefly, the gadfly, and the gnat. The History of Animals
  • She took a sip of her martini while a horsefly flew out of her armpit. The Adults
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