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Horsefly   Listen
noun
Horsefly  n.  (pl. horseflies)  
1.
(Zool.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood. Note: Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly.
2.
(Zool.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).





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"Horsefly" Quotes from Famous Books



... articles of food on which the insects light. Flies have been a fruitful source of sickness in military camps, as evidenced in the recent Spanish-American and Anglo-African campaigns. The bites of the sandfly, gadfly, and horsefly may be both relieved and prevented by the same means recommended in the case of mosquitoes ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various
... called the mosquito hawk, which wheeled through their retreats swallowing their prey without a momentary diminution of speed. But the temporary relief that we had hoped for was only an exchange of tormentors: our new assailant, the horsefly, or bulldog, ranged in the hottest glare of the sun and carried off a portion of flesh at each attack. Another noxious insect, the smallest but not the least formidable, was the sandfly known in Canada by ...
— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin
... with a final cigarette and remarked that she never knew when to stop talking. Some parties did, but not her; and she having to be up and on the way to Horsefly Mountain by six-thirty in the A.M.! Her last apology was for a longing she had not been able to conquer: She couldn't help a debased wish to know how that last ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson


Words linked to "Horsefly" :   louse fly, horsefly weed, Tabanidae, cleg, Hippobosca, clegg, genus Hippobosca, family Tabanidae


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