What does dermatobia hominis mean?

dermatobia hominis means "large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals".

What is another word for dermatobia hominis?

Close synonyms include human botfly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dermatobia hominis a common word?

dermatobia hominis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Dermatobia hominis — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals
Synonymshuman botfly
Broaderbotfly
Part ofDermatobia

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What does dermatobia hominis mean?: dermatobia hominis means "large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals".
What is another word for dermatobia hominis?: Close synonyms include human botfly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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