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blowflies

blowflies is the plural of blowfly.

Meaning of blowfly

Noun

blowfly (plural blowflies)

  1. Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
    • The flies that troubled me most were a large kind of blue-bottle or blow-fly. These settled in swarms on my bird skins when first put out to dry, filling their plumage with masses of eggs, which, if neglected, the next day produced maggots.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 329
    Synonyms:
    bottlefly, meat fly

Questions about blowflies

What is blowflies the plural of?
Blowflies is the plural of blowfly.

Words near blowflies in the dictionary

  1. blowes
  2. blowest
  3. bloweth
  4. blowfish
  5. blowfishes
  6. blowflies
  7. blowfly
  8. blowgun
  9. blowguns
  10. blowhard
  11. blowhards

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