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botflies

botflies is the plural of botfly.

Meaning of botfly

Noun

botfly (plural botflies)

  1. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.
    Synonyms:
    oestrus

Phrases with botflies

Questions about botflies

What is botflies the plural of?
Botflies is the plural of botfly.

Words near botflies in the dictionary

  1. Botetourt County
  2. Botevgrad
  3. Botez
  4. Botez gambit
  5. Botez gambits
  6. botflies
  7. botfly
  8. both
  9. both barrels
  10. both of ours
  11. both of theirs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: botflies (page history and authors); botfly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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