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meat fly

meat fly noun: blowfly.

Noun

meat fly (plural meat flies)

  1. blowfly
    • The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 16

Forms of meat fly

pluralmeat flies

Questions about meat fly

What does meat fly mean?
Meat fly means blowfly.
What part of speech is meat fly?
Meat fly is a noun.
What is the plural of meat fly?
The plural of meat fly is meat flies.

Words near meat fly in the dictionary

  1. meat eater
  2. meat eaters
  3. meat flaps
  4. meat flies
  5. meat floss
  6. meat fly
  7. meat fork
  8. meat forks
  9. meat glue
  10. meat grinder
  11. meat grinders

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