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bush fly

bush fly noun: a blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.

Noun

bush fly (plural bush flies)

  1. (Australia) A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.
    • The song that lay along the line of hills told of a Dreamtime Ancestor who failed to perform the correct ritual for controlling a bush-fly breeding cycle.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77
    • So fine and unusual is this stretch of weather that the ever-present bush flies and their dull cousins, the fat black march flies, have declared some sort of national holiday and gone to ground.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 57

Forms of bush fly

pluralbush flies

Questions about bush fly

What does bush fly mean?
Bush fly means a blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.
What part of speech is bush fly?
Bush fly is a noun.
What is the plural of bush fly?
The plural of bush fly is bush flies.

Words near bush fly in the dictionary

  1. bush dogs
  2. bush fire
  3. bush fires
  4. bush flies
  5. bush flight
  6. bush fly
  7. bush flying
  8. bush frog
  9. bush frogs
  10. bush goat
  11. bush goats

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