Word.ws English Dictionary

houseflies

houseflies is the plural of housefly.

Meaning of housefly

Noun

housefly (plural houseflies)

  1. Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
    1. The common housefly, Musca domestica, that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
      • Of the three potential means (carriage on the body and legs, regurgitation and defecation) by which houseflies can transmit pathogens, one involves passage through the gut. During passage through the housefly, pathogens may replicate within the gut.1990, D. C. Kaslow, S. Welburn, “16: Insect-transmitted pathogens in the insect midgut”, in M. Lehane, P. Billingsley, editors, Biology of the Insect Midgut, page 454

Questions about houseflies

What is houseflies the plural of?
Houseflies is the plural of housefly.

Words near houseflies in the dictionary

  1. housefellows
  2. housefire
  3. housefires
  4. houseflag
  5. houseflags
  6. houseflies
  7. housefloor
  8. housefloors
  9. housefly
  10. housefolk
  11. housefrock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: houseflies (page history and authors); housefly (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “houseflies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/houseflies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.