blow fly
1blow-fly — 1720, from FLY (Cf. fly) (n.) + BLOW (Cf. blow) (v.1) in an obsolete sense to deposit eggs, to infect with eggs, in reference to to insects, apparently connected with old notions of natural history [OED] …
2blow fly — blow′ fly or blow′fly n. ent any of numerous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion or excrement or in wounds of living animals • Etymology: 1815–25 …
3blow-fly — n a fly that lays its eggs on meat or wounds …
4blow|fly — «BLOH FLY», noun, plural flies. any one of various two winged flies that deposit their eggs on meat or in wounds or fruit …
5Blow-fly — Taxobox name = Calliphoridae image caption = Pollenia rudis female regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Hexapoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota| ordo = Diptera subordo =… …
6Blow Fly — Baton Rouge (roman) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Bâton Rouge (homonymie). Baton Rouge est un roman policier américain de Patricia Cornwell publié en 2003. Le titre original est Blow Fly. C est le douzième roman de la série qui met en scène… …
7blow fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals. Also, blowfly. [1815 25] * * * ▪ insect also spelled blowfly, any member in a family… …
8Blow Fly (novel) — infobox Book | name = Blow Fly title orig = translator = image caption = author = Patricia Cornwell cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Kay Scarpetta Mysteries genre = Crime novel publisher = G. P. Putnam s Sons… …
9blow fly — noun large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds • Syn: ↑blowfly • Hypernyms: ↑fly • Hyponyms: ↑bluebottle, ↑Calliphora vicina, ↑greenbottle, ↑ …
10blow-fly — noun (C) a fly that lays its eggs on meat or wounds …
