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horseflies

horseflies is the plural of horsefly.

Meaning of horsefly

Noun

horsefly (plural horseflies)

  1. Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
    • It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36
    Synonyms:
    cleg, breezefly, gadfly, stoat-fly, stout

Questions about horseflies

What is horseflies the plural of?
Horseflies is the plural of horsefly.

Words near horseflies in the dictionary

  1. Horsefields
  2. horsefish
  3. horsefishes
  4. horseflesh
  5. horseflesh ore
  6. horseflies
  7. horsefly
  8. horsefolk
  9. horsefoot
  10. horsefoots
  11. horsefright

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