What does horse botfly mean?

horse botfly means "parasitic chiefly on horses".

What is another word for horse botfly?

Close synonyms include Gasterophilus intestinalis. 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 horse botfly a common word?

horse botfly 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.

Horse botfly — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

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

1.
parasitic chiefly on horses
SynonymsGasterophilus intestinalis
Broaderbotfly
Part ofGasterophilus

Questions about horse botfly

What does horse botfly mean?: horse botfly means "parasitic chiefly on horses".
What is another word for horse botfly?: Close synonyms include Gasterophilus intestinalis. 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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