Definition of Botfly

1. Noun. Stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals.


Definition of Botfly

1. n. A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

Definition of Botfly

1. Noun. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals on which they deposit their eggs. ¹

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Definition of Botfly

1. a type of fly [n -FLIES]

Medical Definition of Botfly

1. A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Botfly

botches
botchier
botchiest
botchily
botching
botchings
botchy
bote
botel
boteless
botels
boten
botete
botetes
botflies
botfly (current term)
both
both(a)
both-hands
bothan
bothans
bothe
bother
botheration
botherations
botherder
botherders
bothered
botherer
botherers

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