gasterophilus intestinalis

1. 1.

   parasitic chiefly on horses

   Synonymshorse botfly

   Broaderbotfly

   Part ofGasterophilus

Questions about gasterophilus intestinalis

What does gasterophilus intestinalis mean?

gasterophilus intestinalis means "parasitic chiefly on horses".

What is another word for gasterophilus intestinalis?

Close synonyms include horse 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 gasterophilus intestinalis a common word?

gasterophilus intestinalis 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.