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blind-flies

blind-flies is the plural of blind-fly.

Meaning of blind-fly

Noun

blind-fly (countable and uncountable, plural blind-flies)

  1. (countable) Any of several medium-sized blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanidae, usually species in the genus Haematopota.
    • I caught a number of that species of Tabanidae which has a large, grey-striped body, greenish-yellow eyes, and entirely transparent wings. This is locally termed the "blind fly" and it feeds on blood.1898, Arthur Dunley-Owen, The Lancet: The Blind Fly and the locust in the evolution of the malaria parasite
    Synonyms:
    cleg, horse-fly
  2. (uncountable) The game of blind man's buff
    • Possibly derived from the Italian name of the game: Mosca cieca, which literally means "blind fly".

Questions about blind-flies

What is blind-flies the plural of?
Blind-flies is the plural of blind-fly.

Words near blind-flies in the dictionary

  1. blind with science
  2. blind-copied
  3. blind-copies
  4. blind-copy
  5. blind-copying
  6. blind-flies
  7. blind-fly
  8. blind-side
  9. blind-sides
  10. blind-site
  11. blind-sited

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